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Mental Health Provider Supply

Scale55-100

Higher values are better.

About This Ranking

Goal

Compare broad mental-health provider supply per resident in the surrounding county or Connecticut planning region, with a visible ceiling when the place point lies inside a current federal geographic mental-health shortage area.

Sources

Data behind the rating

8 sources

County Health Rankings - Mental Health Providers

2025 provider data; March 25, 2026 supplemental release
Data
The official measure definition and county counts for psychiatrists, psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, substance-use treatment providers, and advanced-practice mental-health nurses registered in NPPES.
What it tells us
Measures broad county provider supply at recorded addresses; it does not establish active status, new-patient acceptance, capacity, insurance participation, or appointment access.

County Health Rankings March 2026 Analytic Supplement

Released March 25, 2026; mostly 2025 provider data
Data
Frozen county mental-health provider numerator and population denominator used outside Connecticut, including confirmed zero-provider rows.
What it tells us
Supplies the exact observed county numerator and denominator for the fixed score; missing or invalid evidence is withheld rather than replaced.

County Health Rankings 2025 Annual Data - Connecticut

2025 annual release; 2024 provider data
Data
The official annual file supplies 2024 mental-health provider counts on Connecticut's nine current planning regions because the March 2026 supplement lacks compatible Connecticut values.
What it tells us
Provides a visible one-provider-year-older Connecticut fallback on the same fixed scale, without imputation.

HRSA Designated Geographic Mental-Health HPSAs

Current federal layer retrieved July 27, 2026
Data
Current designated Geographic and High Needs Geographic mental-health shortage-area polygons matched by exact containment of the stored representative place point.
What it tells us
Caps an otherwise higher score at 70 only for an exact geographic designation. Population and facility designations are excluded, and no match adds no benefit.

HRSA HPSA Scoring Guidance

Current guidance accessed July 27, 2026
Data
Official explanation of mental-HPSA priority scores, which combine provider ratios with poverty, age, substance-use, and travel-time inputs.
What it tells us
Supports treating the priority score as context rather than as a linear broad-provider-supply measure.

HRSA Designated HPSA Quarterly Report

Current report accessed July 27, 2026
Data
Official national designation report noting that most mental-health HPSAs are currently based on psychiatrist supply and may not reflect other provider availability.
What it tells us
Explains why an exact shortage designation can coexist with a high count of the broader provider group.

Federal Mental-HPSA Designation Criteria

Current 42 CFR Part 5, Appendix C
Data
The governing federal criteria for mental-health shortage designations, including psychiatrist and core-provider ratio pathways.
What it tells us
Defines the official designation construct used only as a binary exact-geography qualification.
Data
Full-resolution current county and county-equivalent polygons used for unique strict containment of the stored place representative point.
What it tells us
Identifies the current containing county without a nearest-county, state, or legacy-topology fallback.

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