What we can do for you

National Healthcare Workforce Data • Research • Mapping • Internet Mapping Application • Development/Administration • Digital Mapping Workshops

  • Identify areas of risk for access to healthcare services through analysis of workforce, facility locations and populations of greater healthcare needs
  • Demonstrate your programs/organization/school’s ability to meet its mission through maps and spreadsheet analysis
  • Identify areas best suited for new  healthcare training sites relative to the healthcare profession’s current training sites and potential workforce to support training
  • Determine physician  workforce needs relative to HRSA’s physician requirement ratio (see link to map)
  • Help you visualize your data (e.g., current students, alumni, core and residency programs, etc.) and overlay with demographic, socio-economic, political boundaries, rural and underserved areas, etc.
  • Generate high-quality maps for your website, presentations, or publications (see link to map)
  • Conduct spatial analysis of your data and provide resulting data along with maps (see link to map)
  • Map your membership and/or alumni to rural, underserved, political boundaries
  • Show State’s return on investment in your training programs/school
  • Conduct healthcare workforce economic impact analysis using the Rural Health Works impact model
  • Provide basic workforce presentation that will help explain the current national and regional healthcare workforce landscape

 National Healthcare Workforce Data

Annual data is collected and processed for the following heatlhcare workforce providers from each of their respective licensure boards: 

  • Physicians (Allopathic and Osteopathic)
  • Physician Assistants
  • Advanced Practice Nurses
  • Certified Nurse Anesthetists
  • Certified Nurse Midwives
  • Psychologists
  • Podiatrists
  • Optometrists
  • Certified Nurse Specialists
  • Physical Therapists
  • Dentists
  • Oral Maxillofacial Surgeons
  • Pharmacists
  • Audiologists
  • Speech Language Pathologists
  • Chiropractors
  • Naturopaths

Additional tracking and inventory products are generated making further analysis and research of this data more efficient.

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Research

Throughout the year, the Center provides responses/analytical support to both internal (VCOM staff/faculty) and external clients relative to the national healthcare workforce data, other publically available data sources (demographic, shortage area, etc.)  and/or their own data. Currently there have been discussions with several external research and national healthcare organization on conducting joint research on multiple areas with resulting publications.  NCAHD’s National Advisory Board will provide input on research that the Center is considering and additional areas to be considered.

Historically, costs for conducting research for external clients are covered if there is a generation of a map or other data product.

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Mapping

Throughout the year, various mapping products are sought from the Center based upon the national healthcare workforce data, other publically available data sources (demographic, shortage areas, etc.)  and/or their own data.   To meet these needs, the following products and services will be provided:

  • Map Example Archive
     Throughout the year, maps created for both internal VCOM staff/faculty and clientele will be posted to the NCAHD website as examples that demonstrate the center’s cartographic skills, depth of knowledge of the healthcare professions and ability to incorporate clientele data in support their healthcare advocacy, legislation, policy development, new or expanding of healthcare training programs, membership and alumni support, grant writing, research, etc.  Some of these maps will be included in the basic power point presentation that can be download for free.

     Fee:  None 

  • Map e-Commerce Gateway
    NCAHD will create an e-commerce gateway accessed through the NCAHD website that will provide a series of high quality of national and state level maps for each of the professions showing individual locations with basic map reference features (e.g. major cities, county boundaries, etc.).   

    Fee:  $24.99/map

  • Custom Maps
    The public can team with NCAHD to customize and produce a high quality map (or maps), displaying their data along with selected NCAHD data. Optional enhancements include shortage designations, healthcare workforce providers, demographics, socio-econmic data, and others. The map sample archive includes a variety of maps created by NCAHD.

     In addition to incorporating your data, NCAHD can add your logo, map title, a subtitle, and a source note. The custom map will be produced in high resolution PDF or JPEG format and designed for standard printing layouts ( 8 ½ x 11 inches; Landscape or Portrait).

    Fee:  $100/map  (minimum; each request will be reviewed to determine the work effort, and subsequent charge; the requestor will be informed of the final cost prior to ordering); 3 business days guaranteed product delivery date.

    Related Links
    Custom Map Order Form
    Map Samples

  • Custom Map Series
    Includes the generation of high-quality, desktop published maps to create a map series based on complete state and/or regional data of individual and/or combined healthcare professions. A map series is often used in presentations, publication, advocacy activities, grant applications, etc.

    Fee:   $1,000 for 15 high quality maps, provided with client preferred image format or imbedded into a power point presentation.

  • Healthcare Workforce Data Download- create an easy-to-use interface that will enable the user to download zip-code level aggregated healthcare workforce data in a spreadsheet format at the state, regional or national levels for support of their own research, grant/proposal development, etc.

    Fee:  TBD

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Internet Mapping Application (IMA)

NCAHD, in partnership with other stakeholders, is creating an IMA to demonstrate the type/quality of healthcare workforce data that our center can provide through our products and services.  We will have the ability to modify the interface in order to add/remove data and create customized interfaces for our clientele with their own data, logo, etc. that we’ll provide as a custom service.  Users will have the ability to view the aggregated healthcare workforce data and possibly some of the point location data with nationally available data, e.g. shortage designations, demographic, etc.  They will have the ability to create a very basic map and be directed to the map store and the custom map form to order for higher quality maps. 

Fee: TBD

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Digital Mapping Workshops

Throughout the year, the Director will conduct mapping workshops for the Center for Rural Health Works and other partners/stakeholders upon request. Workshops can be designed from 3 hours to 2 days, depending upon the GIS tools and techniques desired to be taught.   All training is conducted at the client’s facility or as arranged by the client in a third-party facility, such as a hotel or academic facility. For those wanting a hands-on training session, an additional fee for a trial version of the mapping software would apply. 

Fee: TBD                       

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