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    • Find Shortage Areas: HPSA & MUA/P by Address

    Metadata Updated: July 29, 2025

    The Find Shortage Areas: Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) and Medically Underserved Area/Population (MUA/P) by Address tool helps you determine if a specific address is located in a designated shortage area. Shortage areas are designated by HRSA as specific geographic areas or sites that have the greatest need for health care. Shortage areas are categorized by specific needs (Primary Care HPSA, Mental Health HPSA, Dental Care HPSA, or MUA/P).

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 29, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 29, 2025
    Publisher Health Resources and Services Administration
    Maintainer
    Identifier 479be80d-2fac-415b-90c5-77a15ae1cab7
    Data First Published 2012-05-30
    Data Last Modified 2023-07-26
    Category Health, Medicare
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 009:15
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id fe86b472-6513-4a70-a4a2-62ebccd29cce
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://data.hrsa.gov/tools/shortage-area/by-address
    License https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/
    Program Code 009:014
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash cd6d93758976c37c1292936aca8425781f122aee78f53c28b9753ffdda96cbd2
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 2009-01-01T00:00:00-05:00/2009-01-01T00:00:00-05:00

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