Healthcare Workforce Shortage Designation

The Healthcare Workforce Shortage Designation, within the Primary Care Office, works to find the areas of the state that need health care providers. It does that by maintaining a database of primary care providers within the state and then using mapping technology to create workforce shortage designations, based on federal standards. These designations help increase the number of providers in underserved areas through federal or state loan repayment for providers to work in designated areas (an evidence-based approach) and by providing federal or state resources to health care organizations in those areas.