KHC Webinar – Updates on Health Professional Shortage Area Designations – Feb. 15
(Jan. 26, 2024) – The Kansas Healthcare Collaborative is hosting a webinar from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 15. Ashley Wallace and Britney Nasseri from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment's Office of Primary Care and Rural Health will discuss the latest changes to Kansas Health Professional Shortage Area designations, what their office is doing in response to these changes and how the changes may impact Kansas health care organizations.
On Jan. 2, 2024, the Health Resources and Services Administration's Bureau of Health Workforce published a Federal Register Notice that included a current list of HPSAs. HPSAs can be geographic areas, populations or facilities having a shortage of primary, dental or mental health care providers. The designations are used to determine eligibility for federal programs supporting the health workforce, such as the National Health Service Corps, as well as safety net programs such as HRSA's health centers and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' rural health clinics. The list includes information on designations that were proposed for withdrawal as of Nov. 15, 2023, designations that have been withdrawn since that date, as well as information on designations that are currently active.
--Karen Braman