Collectively, the U.S. needs 7,935 mental healthcare practitioners to remove its Health Workforce Shortage Area designation from the Health Resources and Services Administration.
Here are 15 states with more than 100 facilities designated as in shortage, ranked by the number of facilities needing providers, according to the administration.
|
State |
No. of facilities with shortages |
|
450 |
|
297 |
|
243 |
|
179 |
|
164 |
|
162 |
|
141 |
|
135 |
|
133 |
|
123 |
|
114 |
|
113 |
|
106 |
|
102 |
|
101 |
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