Wisconsin Mental Health HPSAs

Federally Designated Health Professional Shortage Areas
5/29/2013

* Data definitions in notes.
Wisconsin Department of Health Services
Division of Public Health
Wisconsin Primary Care Office
http://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/health/primarycare/index.htm

 Wisconsin Mental Health HPSAs

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This map shows the defined areas that have been federally designated as Mental Health
Health Professional Shortage Areas – mental health HPSAs at the time of this publication.
Mental Health HPSAs have significant shortages of psychiatrists and meet the following
criteria for federal designation:
- Rational service area (e.g., county or cluster of towns or census tracts),
- Percent of the population below poverty,
- Population to psychiatrist ratio, and
- Contiguous area resources not available.
The psychiatrists who are counted include general and child/adolescent. Other mental
health providers are not required to be counted at this time.
Geographic HPSAs reflect a psychiatrist shortage for the area’s general resident population
and have a population to psychiatrist ratio of > 30,000 to 1.0 FTE or higher. High need
areas (regions with the highest prevalence of alcohol or substance use in the state) can be
designated with a ratio of > 20,000 to 1.0 FTE.
There are no low-income population mental health HPSAs in Wisconsin at this time.
Every geographic HPSA must be reviewed and federally re-designated after three full years.
This map does not show the other two types of federally designated HPSAs: facilities (e.g.,
state correctional facilities) or automatic safety net facilities (e.g., community health
centers, tribal health centers, and certified rural health clinics).
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services – Primary Care Office (PCO) collects clinic
and psychiatrist data and submits state applications to the Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) for federal designation of HPSAs.
The complete and most current list of all federally designated HPSAs is available on HRSA’s
web page at: http://hpsafind.hrsa.gov/
This map was prepared by the Wisconsin PCO and contracted HPSA staff at the Wisconsin
Primary Health Care Association.
More information on HPSAs and the linked federal and state benefits is available on the
Wisconsin PCO web page.
http://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/health/primarycare/ShortageDesignation.htm

Wisconsin Department of Health Services, P-00515A (6/2013)
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