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Primary Care Workforce & Certified Clinic Proximity

Scale55-100

Higher values are better.

About This Ranking

Goal

Compare county primary-care physician and NP/PA workforce supply plus straight-line proximity to the best availability-adjusted CMS-confirmed FQHC service site or certified Rural Health Clinic, with a fixed adjustment for an exact geographic shortage designation.

Sources

Data behind the rating

12 sources

2024-2025 Area Health Resources Files - Primary-Care Physicians

2024-2025 AHRF release; physician and population reference year 2023
Data
County counts of 2023 non-federal primary-care physicians in direct patient care, excluding hospital residents and physicians age 75 or older, paired with the AHRF 2023 county population estimate.
What it tells us
Shows county physician supply at recorded practice or business locations; it does not establish current appointment capacity, insurance acceptance, or service availability within the named municipality.

2026 County Health Rankings - Other Primary-Care Providers

Mostly 2025 provider data; March 25, 2026 release
Data
County counts and ratios of primary-care nurse practitioners and physician assistants, including the publisher's geospatial corrections.
What it tells us
Adds county NP/PA supply to the physician count; it does not establish whether a provider is active, accepting patients, or available to a particular household.

2025 County Health Rankings Annual Data - Connecticut

2025 annual release; 2021 physician and 2024 NP/PA data
Data
The official annual file supplies Connecticut's 2021 primary-care physician counts on eight historical counties and 2024 NP/PA counts on nine current planning regions because the current analytic supplement omits Connecticut.
What it tells us
Provides a visible dual-geography Connecticut fallback on the same fixed curves. The NP/PA values predate the publisher's September 2025 geospatial correction.

HRSA Health Center Service Delivery Sites

Current federal layer retrieved July 27, 2026
Data
Active permanent service-delivery and administrative/service-delivery sites in nonrestricted settings, with reported weekly hours, retained only when the exact state and Medicare billing number appear in the current CMS FQHC roster.
What it tells us
Identifies one conservative class of federally supported service sites; Form 5B permits a site to offer only oral or mental health care, so certification does not prove adult medical primary care at that exact site.

CMS-Approved Federally Qualified Health Centers

Current federal layer retrieved July 27, 2026
Data
The current CMS-approved FQHC spatial roster used as an exact state-and-provider-number certification gate for HRSA service-site records.
What it tells us
Prevents placeholders or stale nonblank HRSA billing fields from being treated as certification evidence; it does not establish the exact services, hours, capacity, or patient eligibility at a site.

HRSA Form 5B Service-Site Instructions

Current guidance accessed July 27, 2026
Data
Official scope guidance defining a health-center service site and noting that an individual site may provide a single service such as oral or mental health care.
What it tells us
Supports the visible qualification that a CMS-confirmed FQHC location is not proof of adult medical primary care at that exact site.

CMS-Certified Rural Health Clinics

Current federal layer retrieved July 27, 2026
Data
Current Rural Health Clinic locations from HRSA's CMS healthcare-facility layer, consolidated with co-located eligible health-center records.
What it tells us
Adds certified rural clinic locations to the proximity signal; certification and proximity do not establish live hours, capacity, insurance acceptance, or appointment availability.

HRSA Designated Geographic Primary-Care HPSAs

Current federal layer retrieved July 27, 2026
Data
Current designated Geographic and High Needs Geographic primary-care shortage-area polygons matched by exact containment of the stored place point.
What it tells us
Applies a fixed shortage adjustment only when the point lies inside an exact geographic designation; population and facility designations and the HPSA priority score are not used.

HRSA IHS Facility Layer

Current federal layer retrieved July 27, 2026
Data
Nearby IHS and tribal hospitals, health centers, health stations, and Alaska village clinics shown as non-scoring context.
What it tells us
A nearby facility may matter to an eligible household, but it contributes zero because IHS and tribal eligibility is restricted and varies.

Indian Health Service Eligibility Guidance

Current guidance accessed July 27, 2026
Data
Official guidance describing who may receive services from the Indian Health Service and the exceptions and local rules that can apply.
What it tells us
Explains why nearby IHS and tribal facilities are context rather than universally available primary-care capacity.
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.

2021 U.S. Census TIGER/Line Connecticut County Boundaries

2021 historical Connecticut county geography
Data
Full-resolution pre-planning-region Connecticut county polygons used only to assign the official 2021 physician data retained in the 2025 County Health Rankings annual release.
What it tells us
Preserves the physician source's historical eight-county geography while current NP/PA data uses Connecticut's nine planning regions; it is not an imputation.

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