Federal Medically Underserved Area / Population (MUA/MUP) designations — service areas and populations with insufficient access to primary care.
HRSA Health Professional Shortage Areas
Federal Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) designations — geographic areas, populations, and facilities with a critical shortage of primary-care, dental, or mental-health providers. Source:
FHIR Location · Sample record
What a record looks like in the API response.
{
"resourceType": "Location",
"id": "hpsa-1234567890",
"_source": "hrsa-hpsa-shortage-areas",
"_methodology": "hrsa-hpsa/v1",
"name": "Example County Primary Care HPSA",
"extension": [{ "url": "hpsaScore", "valueInteger": 18 }]
}Every record carries _source, _methodology, a snapshot date, and a confidence tier. All fourteen provenance fields survive export and API delivery.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FONTEUM_KEY" \ "https://api.fonteum.com/fhir/r4/Location?_source=hrsa-hpsa-shortage-areas" \ | jq '._source, ._methodology, .meta.tag'
Dataset facts
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Agency | |
| Category | Workforce and access |
| Records | |
| Temporal coverage | 2026 |
| Refresh cadence | Quarterly |
| Freshness SLA | Within 7 days of HRSA Data Warehouse release |
| Last synced | 2026-06-14Updated 2026-06-14 |
| FHIR resource | Location |
| Methodology | hrsa-hpsa/v1 |
| Measured | HPSA designation type, discipline, HPSA score, status, and geography per designation |
| Upstream source | data.hrsa.gov → |
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