Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas, California, 2010
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This polygon shapefile contains primary health care professional shortage areas (HPSAs) in California. The federal HPSA designation identifies areas as having a shortage of health care providers on the basis of availability of primary care physicians. To qualify for designation as a HPSA, an area must be: 1. A rational service area, [the Federal Shortage Designation Branch recognizes Medical Service Study Areas in California as rational service areas.] 2. Population to primary care physician ratio: 3,500:1 or 3,000:1 plus population features demonstrating "unusually high need". 3. A lack of access to health care in surrounding areas because of excessive distance, over-utilization, or access barriers. Benefits of designation as a HPSA include: Student loan repayment and personnel placement through the National Health Service Corps (NHSC); Improved Medicare reimbursement. Physicians in geographic HPSAs are automatically eligible for a 10% increase in Medicare reimbursement; Eligibility for Rural Health Clinics (a prospective payment method designed to enhance access to primary health care in rural underserved areas); Eligibility for the California State Loan Repayment Program; Enhanced federal grant eligibility; and Funding preference for primary care physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, and nurse midwife programs that provide substantial training experience in HPSAs. The original legislation was enacted by Congress in the 1970s, Section 332 of the U.S. Public Health Service Act (as amended); Health Care Safety Net Amendments authorized automatic facility HPSA process for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), and Rural Health Centers (RHC). Authorizes the Secretary of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to designate shortage areas delegated to Health Resources and Services Administration/Bureau of Health Professions/ National Center for Health Workforce Analysis/Shortage Designation Branch. This is version 6 of this data (updated: 2010). This layer is part of the Healthcare Atlas of California.
- Purpose
- This data was developed by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development's (OSHPD) Healthcare Workforce and Community Development Division (HWCDD). The data is used to support the following programatic areas: 1) encourage demographically underrepresented groups to pursue healthcare careers 2) identifies geographic areas of unmet need, and 3) encourages primary care physicians and non-physician practitioners to provide healthcare in medically underserved areas in California.
Description
Type of resource | cartographic, software, multimedia |
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Form | Shapefile |
Extent | 7.151 |
Place | Sacramento, US |
Publisher | California. Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development |
Publication date | 2010 |
Edition | 2010.v6 |
Language | English |
Digital origin | born digital |
Map data | Scale not given. ; Custom projection W 124°34ʹ48ʺ--W 113°45ʹ31ʺ/N 42°4ʹ20ʺ--N 32°28ʹ36ʺW 124°28ʹ55ʺ--W 114°27ʹ46ʺ/N 42°34ʺ--N 32°33ʹ56ʺ, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326 |
Creators/Contributors
Creator | California. Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development |
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Subjects
Subject | Primary care (Medicine) |
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Subject | Medically underserved areas |
Subject | Health services accessibility |
Subject | California |
Subject | 2010 |
Subject | Health |
Genre | Geospatial data |
Genre | Cartographic dataset |
Bibliographic information
Supplemental information | Manually edited several records according to HRSA website by direction from staff in Shortage Designation Program. |
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Use limitation | The State of California, the California Health and Human Services Agency and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development make no representations or warranties regarding the accuracy of data or maps. The user will not seek to hold the State, the Agency or the Office liable under any circumstances for any damages with respect to any claim by the user or any third party on account of or arising from the use of data or maps. The user will cite the California Health and Human Services Agency and/or the Office as the original source of the data, but will clearly denote cases where the original data have been updated, modified, or in any way altered from the original condition. There are no restrictions on distribution of the data by users |
WGS84 Cartographics | This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection. |
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Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/gf752gn7107 |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use.
- Copyright
- This work is in the Public Domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright.
Preferred citation
- Preferred citation
- California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. (2010). Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas, California, 2010. California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/gf752gn7107.
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