Mills County, Iowa County Health Workforce Brief
Federal shortage designations — not a commercial demand forecast or provider quality rank.
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No active HPSA designations attributed to this county in the current vintage.
Active designations†
0
Primary care†
0
Dental†
0
Mental health†
0
Max HPSA score†
—
Total FTE short†
—
Material changes†
baseline
† = ClarityPoint calculation. Every figure carrying this mark was computed by ClarityPoint from the public source files listed under Sources — counts, sums, medians, averages, percentages, coverage rates, shares, per-capita rates, percentiles, distributions, and composite or index values. ClarityPoint calculations are not published, reviewed, approved, or endorsed by any federal agency and must not be cited or reported as agency figures. Figures without the mark are reproduced as the source agency published them.
Summary
Mills County, Iowa has 0 active HRSA Health Professional Shortage Area designations in this vintage (Primary Care: 0, Dental: 0, Mental Health: 0).
Highest HPSA score among active designations is not available (primary care/mental health 0-25; dental 0-26; higher indicates greater shortage priority). Clinician FTE shortfall is not reported on these designations.
HPSA designations support workforce programs (e.g., loan repayment eligibility context) — they are not a forecast of commercial demand or a quality ranking of providers.
Labor-market context (QCEW 2024 (private ownership)): Private healthcare employers reported approximately 270 jobs across ambulatory (NAICS 621) and nursing/residential care (623); home health (6216) is included within ambulatory and is not added again; average annual private-sector pay is ambulatory care $51,402, nursing/residential care $47,582. These are BLS QCEW averages, not medians, and cover private-sector employers only.
Data vintage: Downloaded 2026-09-03 (HRSA refreshes nightly).
Change tracking for this county began with the HRSA download 2026-09-03 · BLS QCEW 2024 · ACS 5-year 2019-2023 data vintage; the next data refresh will report provider additions, exits, and rating changes.
Designation preview
Showing 0 of 0 HPSA designations. Full table in the paid PDF.
| Name | Discipline | Type | Score (0-26) | FTE short | Population |
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Benchmarks — in the full report
The paid PDF compares this county to state and national county medians with percentiles.
Methodology
- Source: HRSA HPSA / MUA-P / FQHC public download files, BLS QCEW annual county files, and Census ACS population, compiled offline into a committed, vintage-stamped data artifact (workforce-artifact-2.0.0) covering 3222 counties. The vintages cited are the real download dates.
- Sourced vs. derived figures: values reproduced exactly as the publishing agency released them carry no mark. Figures ClarityPoint computed from those files are marked † — counts, sums, medians, averages, percentages, coverage rates, shares, per-capita rates, percentiles, distributions, and composite or index values. ClarityPoint calculations are ClarityPoint's alone: no agency publishes, reviews, approves, or endorses them, and they must not be cited as agency data.
- Designated and Proposed-for-Withdrawal designations are included; Withdrawn designations are excluded. Rows are deduped by (HPSA ID, county).
- HPSA score is the federal priority score (primary care/mental health 0-25; dental 0-26) as published by HRSA on each designation, reproduced unchanged in the designation detail table. Discipline counts, maximum and median scores, FTE-short and underserved totals, and every benchmark are ClarityPoint calculations over those published rows — HRSA publishes no county rollup.
- BLS QCEW industry cells (employment, establishments, average weekly wage, average annual pay) are reproduced exactly as BLS published them. The combined employment measure is an ClarityPoint sum of disclosed NAICS 621 + 623; 6216 is a subset of 621 and is not added again. It excludes hospitals (622), government and self-employment. If either component is absent or suppressed the combined measure is unavailable, not a partial total.
- Population 65+ is an ClarityPoint sum of the published Census ACS age bands; total population is the published ACS estimate.
- FTE short and underserved population are designation-level figures attributed to each county served; multi-county designations contribute to every county they serve.
- Complete normalized designation, MUA/P and FQHC site rows are retained. All county and discipline metrics are calculated over the complete record set; display pagination does not change totals. Null means the source did not publish a usable value, not an omitted table row.
- Safety-net context (MUA/P designations and FQHC service-delivery sites) is summarized from the same HRSA download files.
- Labor-market context is BLS QCEW annual county data for private-ownership healthcare NAICS (621 ambulatory, 6216 home health, 623 nursing/residential care). QCEW average annual pay and average weekly wage are payroll-per-job AVERAGES, not medians; suppressed cells render as not available.
- State and national comparisons are ClarityPoint calculations: medians and percentiles computed by ClarityPoint across all counties in the committed artifact. No agency publishes them.
- Sellable threshold: ≥1 active designation in county.
- Missing values are never imputed as zero.
Limitations
- HPSA boundaries can be sub-county; county rollups may include population-targeted designations that do not cover the entire county.
- Underserved population, served population, and FTE-short figures are designation-level figures attributed to each county served — multi-county designations contribute their full figures to every county they serve, so totals are not county-exclusive.
- Scores and FTE short change when HRSA updates designations — always check the as-of vintage.
- Reference periods differ by dataset: HRSA designations are as of the download date (2026-09-03); QCEW wages cover calendar 2024; population is ACS 5-year 2019-2023.
- BLS QCEW wage/employment figures are county private-ownership averages for broad healthcare NAICS — they are not occupation-specific or median wages, and small-county cells may be suppressed and shown as not available.
- This is a one-time market-screening and preliminary-diligence starter, not investment, staffing, or financial advice, and not a recommendation to open a clinic or apply for any program.
- Not medical advice; not affiliated with or endorsed by HRSA, HHS, CMS, BLS, Census, or HUD.