FL · Healthcare shortage profile
Miami-Dade County, FL
Peak severity leads this reading: Miami-Dade County's highest active HPSA score is 25.0, clearing HRSA's 17-point high-priority line. Population 2,701,767.
- Active HPSAs
- 52
- Population
- 2,701,767
- Peak shortage score
- 25.0
- MUA Index
- 28.4
Heavy-burden verdict
According to current HRSA Data Warehouse records, Miami-Dade County ranks among the most underserved counties in the country - 52 active HPSA designations, more than 99% of the 3,289 real US counties, with mental health the deepest gap.
- 52
- Active HPSA designations
- 16
- Dental shortages
- 25
- Peak severity score (of 26)
- Top 1%
- US counties by volume
Key findings
What the HRSA Data Warehouse does not surface for Miami-Dade County, FL on its own pages , computed from the retained designation mirror as of 2026-08-15. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.
-
Peak HPSA score 25.0 clears HRSA's 17-point high-priority line.
Scores at or above 17 on the 0–25/26 scales open NHSC placement priority for the matching provider type; eligibility still follows the designated area, not the county boundary alone.
-
Closing Miami-Dade County's active designations would take about 77 additional clinician FTEs, with mental health the largest gap.
HRSA providers_needed summed once per HPSA id (no double-count across status rows): 18 primary care, 54 mental health, 4.1 dental. This is the federal gap estimate, not a headcount of practising clinicians.
-
36.5% of Miami-Dade County's 52 active designations are mental health.
Discipline mix from designated HPSA records only: 17 primary care, 19 mental health, 16 dental (denominator 52).
Dense ZCTA lattice over Miami-Dade County
Miami-Dade County intersects 81 Census ZCTAs, above the 15-ZIP dense-tercile cut. Shortage designations still attach at the county (or smaller HPSA) grain; the ZIP list is geography, not a second severity score.
Largest land-share ZCTAs in this county
69 additional ZCTAs intersect this county in the crosswalk (ordered by land share).
Source: Census ZCTA–county relationship file joined to this portal's county FIPS set. As of 2026-08-15.
Corpus placement
Active-designation volume placement
According to current HRSA Data Warehouse records, Miami-Dade County carries 52 active designations, above 99% of real US counties. Use the state peer line below before treating the national percentile as a local access verdict.
State peer position. Miami-Dade County is tied for the highest active-designation count among 67 real counties in FL. Ties share a rank.
Computed from current designated HPSA rows for every five-digit county FIPS. See the placement methodology.
Healthcare shortage designations from HRSA. FIPS: 12086. Population: 2,701,767.
Medically Underserved Area
Peak severity scores
Current designated records only. Scores range 0–25 (primary/mental health), 0–26 (dental). Higher = greater need. What counts as a high score?
Highest-severity HPSA designations
Showing the 40 most-severe of 52 active (designated) HPSAs in Miami-Dade County, ranked by HRSA shortage score.
| Name | Type | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Care Resource Community Health Centers Inc | dental | 25.0 |
| Citrus Health Network Inc | dental | 25.0 |
| Banyan Community Health Center Inc | dental | 25.0 |
| Borinquen Health Care Center Inc | dental | 25.0 |
| Center For Family & Child Enrichment Inc | dental | 25.0 |
| Empower "U", Inc. | dental | 25.0 |
| Miami Beach Community Health Center Inc | dental | 25.0 |
| Camillus Health Concern Inc | dental | 25.0 |
| Jessie Trice Community Health System Inc | dental | 25.0 |
| Community Health OF South Florida, Inc. | dental | 25.0 |
| Jessie Trice Community Health System Inc | mental_health | 23.0 |
| Citrus Health Network Inc | mental_health | 23.0 |
| Community Health OF South Florida, Inc. | mental_health | 22.0 |
| Borinquen Health Care Center Inc | mental_health | 22.0 |
| Center For Family & Child Enrichment Inc | mental_health | 22.0 |
| Jessie Trice Community Health System Inc | primary_care | 21.0 |
| Empower "U", Inc. | primary_care | 21.0 |
| Empower "U", Inc. | mental_health | 21.0 |
| Miami Beach Community Health Center Inc | mental_health | 21.0 |
| Camillus Health Concern Inc | mental_health | 20.0 |
| Banyan Community Health Center Inc | mental_health | 20.0 |
| Miccosukee Health Department | dental | 20.0 |
| Care Resource Community Health Centers Inc | primary_care | 19.0 |
| Community Health OF South Florida, Inc. | primary_care | 19.0 |
| Camillus Health Concern Inc | primary_care | 19.0 |
| Center For Family & Child Enrichment Inc | primary_care | 19.0 |
| Care Resource Community Health Centers Inc | mental_health | 19.0 |
| LI-Liberty City | primary_care | 18.0 |
| Banyan Community Health Center Inc | primary_care | 17.0 |
| Citrus Health Network Inc | primary_care | 17.0 |
| Miami Beach Community Health Center Inc | primary_care | 17.0 |
| Borinquen Health Care Center Inc | primary_care | 17.0 |
| Miccosukee Health Department | mental_health | 17.0 |
| Miccosukee Health Department | primary_care | 16.0 |
| LI - South Florida Behavioral Network - Circuit 11 | mental_health | 15.0 |
| Fci - Miami | primary_care | 12.0 |
| FDC-Miami | primary_care | 12.0 |
| CF-South Florida Reception Center/South Unit Annex | mental_health | 12.0 |
| Fdc - Miami | mental_health | 12.0 |
| Fci - Miami | mental_health | 12.0 |
Heavy-burden reading for Miami-Dade County
Peak severity leads this reading: Miami-Dade County's highest active HPSA score is 25.0, clearing HRSA's 17-point high-priority line. Dental care carries Miami-Dade County's deepest shortage reading, 25.0 on HRSA's 0–26 dental scale, past the 17-point line HRSA uses to open National Health Service Corps placement and enhanced Medicare reimbursement. Primary care reads 21.0 of 25; Mental health reads 23.0 of 25. The county also sits inside a Medically Underserved Area, indexed at 28.4, and the lower the index, the greater the measured need.
Volume places Miami-Dade County above 99% of real US counties (52 active designations: 17 primary care, 19 mental health, 16 dental). Peak severity on the current designated set is 25.0. The table on this page lists the highest-severity records first so a reader can see which named facilities, geographies, or population groups drive that burden without treating the county total as a personal appointment forecast.
Miami-Dade County is tied for the highest active-designation count among 67 real counties in FL. Heavy-burden counties are where NHSC placement, Community Health Center grant geography, and related federal instruments concentrate; eligibility still follows the designated area and provider type, not the county boundary alone.
Miami-Dade County designations by care type
Active Health Professional Shortage Area designations in the county, by provider category (high-priority disciplines emphasized).
- Mental health
Mental health
19 designations
- Primary care
Primary care
17 designations
- Dental
Dental
16 designations
Heavy-volume FTE gap in Miami-Dade County
HRSA providers_needed summed once per HPSA id for Miami-Dade County's active designations: about 77 FTE, a federal gap estimate, not a headcount of practising clinicians.
Source: HRSA Data Warehouse, Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA) + Medically Underserved Areas/Populations (MUA/P) HPSA primary-care, mental-health, and dental designations for Miami-Dade County, FL · 2026 HRSA designation data updated quarterly; HPSA scores 0-25 (primary/mental) and 0-26 (dental); higher = greater shortage severity. Coverage tiers from U.S. Census ACS PUMS + KFF state tracker.
Acting on a heavy-burden county
Miami-Dade County's shortage designations unlock specific federal programs and comparisons, here is how to act on them.
- Miami-Dade County's 52 active designations make providers here eligible for National Health Service Corps loan repayment, estimate the award and service terms. NHSC estimator
- See how the county's mental health burden compares with the rest of FL before you draw conclusions from a single score. FL overview
- Check whether an area clears HRSA's 3,500:1 population-to-provider threshold with the provider-to-population ratio behind an HPSA score. HPSA score lookup
HPSA scores describe shortage severity within HRSA's designation criteria, not the availability of any individual provider. For a specific appointment, contact a provider or your insurer; use HRSA's current tools to verify a designation.
Counties With a Similar Dental Shortage Score
Other U.S. counties whose active HRSA dental HPSA score is closest to Miami-Dade County's 25.0. This compares the designation score only, not local appointment availability or care quality. Start with Montgomery County, MD and Milwaukee County, WI.
Showing 6 of 2744 counties nationally with an active designation this severe.
Counties near Miami-Dade County's dental score of 25.0
One peer set for this severity-led county: nearest active dental HPSA score to 25.0 (severity lead on this page is “CARE RESOURCE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC”).
Montgomery County, MD
25.0 dental score · 1,062,061 pop.
Milwaukee County, WI
25.0 dental score · 939,489 pop.
Hamilton County, OH
25.0 dental score · 830,639 pop.
Dallas County, TX
25.0 dental score · 2,613,539 pop.
Bexar County, TX
25.0 dental score · 2,009,324 pop.
Sacramento County, CA
25.0 dental score · 1,585,055 pop.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Does Miami-Dade County's MUA standing sit beside its HPSA records?
- Yes - Miami-Dade County carries an MUA designation (index 28.4; lower = greater measured need) in addition to its HPSA rows. MUA and HPSA are separate HRSA tracks; both can open different federal pathways.
- Which record sets Miami-Dade County's peak score of 25.0?
- "CARE RESOURCE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC" leads the active set (score 25.0; dental; 723,472 people in the service area; designated 03/01/2009). Clearing 17 opens NHSC high-priority placement for the matching provider type on the designated geography. Discipline mix across 52 active rows: 17 primary care, 19 mental health, 16 dental.
- Which other active designations sit under Miami-Dade County's severity reading?
- After "CARE RESOURCE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC", the next active names on this release are "CARE RESOURCE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC", "CITRUS HEALTH NETWORK INC", "BANYAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC" and "BORINQUEN HEALTH CARE CENTER INC". Provider need (id-de-duped) totals ~77 FTE across disciplines that still carry a gap.
- Which federal pathways follow Miami-Dade County's high-severity geography?
- Miami-Dade County's 52 active designations can open NHSC placement, CHC grants, Medicare bonus and J-1 waivers, eligibility follows the designated area and provider type, not merely the county line around "CARE RESOURCE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC".
- How does Miami-Dade County's peak severity sit inside FL?
- Miami-Dade County holds 52 active HPSA rows with peak 25.0. Miami-Dade County is tied for the highest active-designation count among 67 real counties in FL. Score-nearest national peers appear below when the peer module renders. Score-nearest counties on this release include Montgomery County, MD and Milwaukee County, WI.
Source: HRSA Data Warehouse. FIPS: 12086. This county’s designations come from BCD_HPSA_FCT_DET_PC.csv (primary care) , BCD_HPSA_FCT_DET_MH.csv (mental health) and BCD_HPSA_FCT_DET_DH.csv (dental) — download the normalized export on our open data page. PlainHealthAccess is not affiliated with HRSA or any government agency.
HRSA Data Warehouse HPSA + MUA/P records for FIPS 12086 (Miami-Dade County, FL), vintage 2026-08-15. Active designation count 52; peak score 25.0; signature peak score 25.0. This profile is reference material, not professional advice; see methodology.