Nursing Workforce Growth Projection

Georgia needs roughly 680 practitioners to remove Health Professional Shortage Area designations Peer states Virginia Total primary care HPSA1 designations² Population of designated HPSAS (M) Practitioners needed to remove HPSA designation³ 124 2.0 205 Louisiana 160 2.4 256 Tennessee 133 2.4 259 Colorado 120 1.1 260 North Carolina 213 2.8 416 Michigan 269 2.9 482 Illinois 263 3.3 534 Washington 203 3.0 626 Arizona 236 3.2 653 Georgia 243 3.2 673 Texas 424 7.3 969 Florida 276 6.3 1,505 1. Health professional shortage areas 2. 3. Area must have a population-to-provider ratio of at least 3,500-to-1 to be considered as having a shortage of primary medical care providers Number of additional primary care physicians needed to achieve a population-to-primary care physician ratio of 3,500 to 1 in all designated primary care HPSAs, resulting in their removal from designation Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF); as of September 30, 2021 66 For physicians, we need to make the State more attractive for those who want to come, but also for those who want to go to less populated areas - Commission Member Quote 9

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