HRSA Uniform Data System (UDS)

How this source shows up on Fonteum.

Tier-2 research enrichment for federally qualified health centers. Awardee-level patient population (Medicaid / uninsured share), staffing FTEs, and clinical-quality-measure rates support FQHC access and quality studies, joined to HRSA HPSA shortage designations. The /data and /sources pages report aggregate counts and per-grant-year breakdowns only — no awardee is named on these catalog surfaces.

Research and data questions this source supports.

• 01Build an FQHC-level quality profile combining HRSA UDS clinical quality measures (cancer screenings, immunizations, depression screening) with HRSA HPSA shortage designations.
• 02Map the 1,359 HRSA-funded health centers and their 16,334 service sites to support a federally qualified health center access study.
• 03Surface FQHC patient counts and staffing FTEs for a community health center capacity and access analysis.
• 04Track clinical-quality-measure rates across the 14 reported UDS measures to benchmark FQHC performance year over year.
• 05Support a health equity study comparing FQHC patient panels (Medicaid %, uninsured %) across states against HPSA shortage severity scores.

Dataset size: 1,359 awardees · 16,334 sites · 18,046 quality-measure rows (Grant Year 2024)

Per-field display contract.

Fields listed below show their configured `display_allowed` flag from the §94 provenance schema. Fields marked write-locked are captured for audit and are not rendered on profile pages.

What we can’t infer from this source.

• UDS reports are self-reported aggregate filings by Health Center Program awardees under federal regulatory obligation. They are not audited.
• Quality measures apply only to the FQHC enrolled patient panel — not comparable to hospital or specialist quality metrics.
• Data is available annually with a ~6-month lag (grant year N data publishes ~May of year N+1); the current snapshot is Grant Year 2024.
• The public extract carries no NPI, no CCN, no grant-award amount, and no published national-average comparator; these render as honest nulls, never inferred.

Authority, license, publisher cadence.

What the source allows.

U.S. government public-domain works (17 U.S.C. § 105). HRSA publishes UDS as an annual flat-file export at data.hrsa.gov with explicit redistribution rights. Hash and manifest coverage must be read from the specific artifact; no provenance fact currently links deterministically to a signature.

What a single field looks like in the graph.

This worked example shows the provenance shape used when a surfaced field has populated source, last-checked, display-rule, and confidence metadata. Individual fields may omit unavailable values.

Official API, bulk download, and Fonteum endpoints.

Common questions about HRSA UDS.

What is the HRSA Uniform Data System (UDS) and what does it measure?

The Uniform Data System (UDS) is HRSA's annual reporting system for Health Center Program awardees — federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and look-alikes. Awardees report aggregate clinical quality measures, staffing FTEs, patient demographics, and payer mix. Data is published annually with approximately a 6-month lag from grant year close; the current Fonteum snapshot is Grant Year 2024.

How many FQHCs and service sites are in the HRSA UDS dataset?

The Grant Year 2024 extract covers 1,359 Health Center Program awardees operating 16,334 service-delivery sites across 59 states and territories, together serving 32.4 million patients. The awardee-level data reflects the full patient panel served across all of a grantee's sites; the dataset also holds 18,046 clinical-quality-measure rows.

Where can I download HRSA UDS data?

HRSA publishes UDS data as an annual flat-file export (an H80 workbook) at data.hrsa.gov under the Health Center Program. Grant Year 2024 is the most recent full year in the current Fonteum pipeline. The data is U.S. government public-domain.

What are the HRSA UDS clinical quality measures?

The Grant Year 2024 extract holds 14 clinical quality measures, including breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening, childhood immunization status, adult weight and BMI screening, tobacco-use screening and cessation, depression screening and remission, HIV screening and linkage to care, statin therapy, and aspirin/antiplatelet therapy. Each is expressed as a rate over eligible patients; the public extract carries no national-average comparator.

Does HRSA UDS data contain individual patient or provider records?

No. UDS data is awardee-level aggregate reporting — not patient-level data, and not individual-provider records. Each row summarizes one HRSA grantee for the grant year. The public extract carries no provider NPI and no facility CCN, so it cannot be tied to an individual practitioner. The aggregate figures support population-level analysis and quality benchmarking, not individual research.

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• /sources → The generated source-catalog subset — documented datasets Fonteum cites.
• /data-provenance → The provider graph — pipeline diagram, source-family clusters, field-level provenance examples, display rules.
• /methodology → Documented sourcing, publisher cadence, observed freshness, and corrections policy.
• /editorial-policy → Independence, sourcing, conflicts, corrections, retractions.