Federal Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) designations — geographic areas, populations, and facilities with a critical shortage of primary-care, dental, or mental-health providers.
HRSA Uniform Data System (UDS)
Annual self-reported performance data for federally funded health centers (FQHCs). The Grant Year 2024 extract covers 1,359 Health Center Program awardees, 16,334 service-delivery sites, and 18,046 clinical-quality-measure rows across 14 measures, serving 32.4 million patients. Awardee-level aggregate reporting; the public extract carries no NPI or CCN. Source:
FHIR Organization · Sample record
What a record looks like in the API response.
{
"resourceType": "Organization",
"id": "uds-example",
"_source": "hrsa-uds",
"_methodology": "hrsa-uds/v1",
"name": "Example Health Center Program Awardee",
"type": [{ "text": "Federally Qualified Health Center" }]
}Every record carries _source, _methodology, a snapshot date, and a confidence tier. All fourteen provenance fields survive export and API delivery.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FONTEUM_KEY" \ "https://api.fonteum.com/fhir/r4/Organization?_source=hrsa-uds" \ | jq '._source, ._methodology, .meta.tag'
Dataset facts
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Agency | |
| Category | Workforce and access |
| Records | |
| Temporal coverage | 2024 |
| Refresh cadence | Annual |
| Freshness SLA | Within 7 days of the annual HRSA UDS release |
| Last synced | 2026-06-15Updated 2026-06-15 |
| FHIR resource | Organization |
| Methodology | hrsa-uds/v1 |
| Measured | Awardee patient counts, payer mix, staffing FTEs, and clinical quality measure rates per grant year |
| Upstream source | data.hrsa.gov → |
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