Summary

Description

The Find Shortage Areas: Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) and Medically Underserved Area/Population (MUA/P) by Address tool is a locator tool designed to help our users determine if a specific address is located in a Primary Care HPSA, Mental Health HPSA, Dental Care HPSA, and/or MUA/P. These HPSAs and MUA/Ps are those areas designated by HRSA with the in greatest need for health care, those areas having: shortages of primary medical care, dental or mental health providers, low income populations, high infant mortality, high poverty population, high elderly population. The returned search results provide indications of whether the address is in a Primary Care HPSA, Mental Health HPSA, Dental Care HPSA, and MUA/P; state name; county name; county subdivision name; Census Tract Number; ZIP Code; post office name; congressional district; congressional district representative; and a map identifying the entered address. The interface makes available three other locator tools (HPSA by State and County; HPSAs Eligible for the Medicare Physician Bonus Payment; and MUA/P by State and County).