About plainhealthaccess
plainhealthaccess organizes source-vintaged Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) shortage-designation records for browsing and comparison. The August 2026 portal snapshot contains 48,151 HPSA rows and 4,155 MUA rows. HRSA's HPSA Find tool supports searches by location, ID, discipline, status, type, score, and rural status; this portal does not replace that current official lookup. The editorial operation is accountable for the data selection, methodology, explanatory framing, and corrections readers see here.
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Health Shortage Data Publisher
PlainHealthAccess is an independent data-journalism portal focused on health professional shortage areas using HRSA data. It publishes source-linked explanations and data-driven references about healthcare access and shortages. PlainHealthAccess does not accept payment from entities it covers.
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plainhealthaccess is a reference publisher: we organize public HRSA designation records for browsing and comparison, identify the source vintage used by a page, and distinguish source-backed figures from explanatory context. A portal snapshot is not a real-time provider directory or a personal assessment of care options. Editorial standards, sourcing, and how we handle corrections are described on our about and methodology pages.
Every figure on PlainHealthAccess is rendered directly from HRSA source data, figures are sourced from HRSA publications and verified against primary sources. plainhealthaccess lists the publishing authors accountable for HRSA shortage-reference pages. Profiles describe editorial roles, not clinical credentials for medical advice. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, review the public data changelog, or report a data issue for this page. Data current as of August 2026.