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In order to help address these needs, Health Systems Planning applies for federal health care shortage designations. These designations target millions of dollars of federal resources to improve health care in underserved areas of the state. We estimate these designations bring in over $20M per year in unmatched federal resources. Our office applies for three types of federal designations from the Bureau of Health Professions, Shortage Designation Branch. These designations are
View maps of Primary Care, Dental and Mental Health HPSA's in Oregon:
All subgroups of HPSA can cover a geographic area or a special population. Special populations include migrant and/or seasonal farmworker, and/or homeless and/or low income populations (below 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Level). About 48 federal programs and some state programs are tied to these designations.
Criteria for HPSA designation include provider to population ratio and distance to the next source of care. Indicators included in MUA/P designations are percent of population under 100% FPL, percent of population over 65 years of age, the infant mortality rate and provider to population ratio. |
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