HPSAs (Health Professional Shortage Areas)

17/02/2020 5 min Temporada 1 Episodio 14
HPSAs (Health Professional Shortage Areas)

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Luca Fernandez, from the State Office of Rural Health and & Primary Care, which is within the Vermont Department of Health explains HPSAs - a particular term you'll hear come up the moment you dip a toe into the waters of health care workforce development. You can browse HPSAs online here - remember that this podcast is talking primarily about geographic HPSAs, not auto-HPSAs or facility HPSAs, so set your search terms accordingly.Vermont Department of Health (VDH) workforce data, including providers at retirement age by different geographical regions.Shortages and distributions of health care workers, maps from VDH.The Rural Health Services Task Force white paper on workforce shortages, from January 10th, 2020. Special thanks to Katherine Kulp, from Middlebury College, who helped with this episode.