Shortage
Designation
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The Shortage
Designation Branch in the HRSA Bureau of Health Professions
National Center for Health Workforce Analysis develops shortage
designation criteria and uses them to decide whether or not
a geographic area or population group is a Health Professional
Shortage Area or a Medically Underserved Area or Population.
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More than
34 federal programs depend on the shortage designation to determine
eligibility or as a funding preference.
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About 20
percent of the U.S. population resides in primary medical
care Health Professional Shortage Areas.
Health Professional
Shortage Areas (HPSAs) may have shortages of primary medical
care, dental or mental health providers and may be urban or rural
areas, population groups or medical or other public facilities.
Medically
Underserved Areas (MUA) may be a whole county or a group of
contiguous counties, a group of county or civil divisions or a group
of urban census tracts in which residents have a shortage of personal
health services.
Medically
Underserved Populations (MUPs) may include groups of persons
who face economic, cultural or linguistic barriers to health care.
For
shortage designation inquiries, please call 1-888-275-4772. Press
option 1, then option 2 or contact the Shortage Designation
Branch:
sdb@hrsa.gov
301-594-0816
301-443-4370 fax
5600 Fishers Lane
Room 8C-26
Rockville, MD 20857 |