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Local data for health-access decisions.

Explore health, community and workforce evidence. Use local knowledge to decide what comes next.

Sources and methods

Primary-care workforce need

HRSA’s FY2026 fourth-quarter Designated Health Professional Shortage Areas report, as of September 30, 2026, reports 35.42% of need met in New York’s designated primary-care shortage areas and 46.75% in the national total. The difference is 11.33 percentage points. The national total includes New York. This is a same-date comparison, not a trend or a causal comparison.

The five neighboring states are New Jersey, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. New York has the lowest reported share among these six states. Each bar uses a 0–100% scale.

HRSA reports 5,288,766 people in designated New York primary-care shortage areas and 1,130 additional primary-care physicians needed to remove those designations. These figures do not mean that everyone in those areas has no care, do not establish appointment waits and are not SozoRock results. The physician calculation excludes additional services from nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

Archived HRSA report: Table 3, page 5; endnotes, pages 14–15 · Download comparison data

County diabetes and blood pressure

CDC PLACES, 2025 release (December 2025), dataset i46a-9kgh. The map shows 2023 model-based crude prevalence estimates for adults aged 18 or older in all 62 New York counties. The county selector and table include 95% confidence intervals. Boundaries come from U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb 2025; shapes are simplified for display.

SozoRock’s population-weighted calculations multiply each county’s crude percentage by its adult population, sum across counties, and divide by the combined adult population. The results are 11.467% for diabetes and 32.562% for high blood pressure, displayed as 11.5% and 32.6%. The modeled diabetes total is approximately 1,790,170 adults, rounded to 1.8 million. These calculations are not official statewide survey estimates. County confidence intervals are not combined into a statewide interval.

The county estimates describe community conditions, not individual needs or program outcomes. Crude rates reflect different county age structures; they are not age-adjusted rankings of care quality.

CDC dataset · Release notes · Measure definitions · Download all county values and confidence intervals

Newer statewide survey evidence

New York State’s September 2026 BRFSS Brief No. 2026-19 reports an estimated 1.9 million adults with diagnosed diabetes in the 2024 survey: 12.3%, with a 95% confidence interval of 11.8–12.8%. This statewide survey estimate and SozoRock’s calculation from the 2023 modeled county estimates use different years and methods. Their difference is not a measured trend.

New York State Department of Health: Diabetes, New York State Adults, 2024

Where access breaks down.

Care must be available, affordable, reachable and usable. Different barriers call for different responses.

Primary care shortages in New York

HRSA snapshot · September 30, 2026

Primary-care workforce need met

In designated primary-care shortage areas

New York’s share was 11.33 percentage points below the national total.

5.29 millionPopulation in designated primary-care shortage areas in New York.
1,130Additional primary-care physicians needed to remove those shortage designations.

Source: HRSA, FY 2026 fourth-quarter report, Table 3. Exact reported population: 5,288,766. Retrieved October 20, 2026. Download chart data.

What these figures do and do not show

Percent of need met compares available primary-care physicians with the number required to remove a shortage designation. It is not the percentage of people receiving care. The national total includes New York; this is a same-date comparison, not a trend or a causal claim.

The population figure does not mean that 5.29 million people have no care. Neither measure establishes appointment waiting times or a SozoRock program result. The physician calculation excludes additional services from nurse practitioners and physician assistants. See Table 3, page 5, and the endnotes on pages 14–15.

Access in practice

Provider availability depends on the number and mix of clinicians, where they practice and whether they accept new patients.

Evidence

Workforce ratios and shortage designations describe capacity. They do not measure an individual practice’s open appointments.

How the program helps

The program provides access to a direct primary care membership with Dr. Michael Purcell and Purcell Integrative Osteopathic Care.

HRSA, fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026.

Primary Care Access Program
Up to 25 New Yorkers · 12 months of support · Beginning January 2027

Place Intelligence

Place Intelligence is public county data on health, community and workforce conditions. Search by county, city or ZIP Code. Review health measures, community conditions and workforce information alongside definitions, sources and dates.

City and ZIP searches resolve to county evidence; overlapping boundaries require a geography choice.

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CB-CAP

CB-CAP is a county planning workspace that links that evidence to access planning. The County-Based Community Access Platform includes proposed institutional workflows for community health assessments, improvement plans, funding and workforce.

Public preview open. Institutional workflows require activation and are not currently available.

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See what the data includes.

Albany County, New York

County FIPS 36001 · 2023 estimates · 2025 release
5.5%Adults aged 18–64 without health insurance95% confidence interval: 4.2–7.0%
7.2%Lack of reliable transportation95% confidence interval: 6.1–8.5%
12.2%Food insecurity95% confidence interval: 9.9–15.0%

Source: CDC PLACES, 2025 release. Model-based crude prevalence estimates for 2023. Insurance covers adults aged 18–64; other measures cover adults aged 18 or older. County estimates describe community conditions, not SozoRock results or an individual’s needs. CDC dataset · Albany source data

More access indicators
County measureEstimate95% confidence interval
Housing insecurity10.8%9.0–12.9%
Utility shutoff threat6.6%5.5–7.9%
Any disability25.9%22.3–29.8%
Loneliness36.1%31.9–40.7%

Same county and 2022–2023 period as the example above. Local planning priorities require local evidence and review; the live page has no verified current local plan for this county.

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Health, community and workforce data

Health and access

Access barriers, chronic conditions and prevention measures. Explore 21 health measures alongside community context.

Community conditions

Community-Level Health Database and American Community Survey evidence. Retain geography, period, definitions and data availability.

Workforce and shortages

Health Professional Shortage Areas, Medically Underserved Areas and Populations, and Area Health Resources Files. Review designation dates and source limitations.

Maps, comparisons and planning

Use Brief, Map, Action and Visuals views to compare counties, inspect sources, share findings and download evidence. Comparisons are contextual and may not be official state or national estimates.

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Health equity research

REBS, RRG and HSA examine rural health equity, governance and digital health systems. Read the publication before adapting a proposed model.

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