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    Health Professional Shortage Area Mental Health

    Metadata Updated: March 30, 2024

    MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SHORTAGE AREA (MHPSA) The federal HPSA designation (formerly Health Manpower Shortage Areas) identifies areas as having a shortage of mental health providers on the basis of availability of psychiatrist and mental health professionals. To qualify for designation as a Mental HPSA, an area must be: A rational service area for the delivery of mental health services, A lack of access to care provided by Core Mental Health Professionals (CMHP) in the area, and One of the following conditions prevails in the area: a. The population to CMHP ratio is > 6,000:1, and the population to psychiatrist ratio is > 20,000:1, ORb. The population to CMHP ratio is > 9,000:1 OR c. The population to psychiatrist ratio is > 30,000:1. Benefits of designation as a HPSA include: student loan repayment and personnel placement through the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) improved Medicare reimbursement enhanced federal grant eligibilityThis data was updated July2014. (2014 ver.7)

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    Metadata Created Date September 15, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date March 30, 2024

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from State of California

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 15, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date March 30, 2024
    Publisher Department of Health Care Access and Information
    Maintainer
    Identifier 1147381a-9b2f-4ca2-985d-6048ebde316f
    Data First Published 2018-07-12T07:02:36.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2014-07-07T00:00:00.000Z
    Category Health and Human Services
    Public Access Level public
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id eb7a08af-e2a4-48cd-9cfd-a54caeb63c77
    Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
    Harvest Source Title State of California
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 739a4ceab3aa53b356790fa4e9fd1c1d12b0a84ecbaf90cf210c2fd976b30088
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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