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Rural Health Information Hub

Does Your State Face Rural Area Provider Shortages?

Description
Shares the percentage of each state's population living in a rural county, along with the following rural and urban healthcare workforce statistics: number of specialists per 100,000 population, number of primary care providers per 100,000 population, and the percent of counties that are wholly designated primary care health professional shortage areas (HPSAs).
Date
2017
Type
Document
Organization
Healthcare Value Hub
Tagged as
Health workforce shortage designations · Health workforce supply and demand · Physicians · Primary care · Rural-urban differences · Specialty care · State-by-state data · State-by-state