One in Three Americans Live in a Health Care Desert.

One in Three Americans Live in a Health Care Desert. Here's What You
Need to Know

Inspired by the concept of the "food desert" as outlined by the USDA,
GoodRx uses driving time to define multiple types of health care
deserts in the United States:

Pharmacy deserts, where the average drive time to the three closest
pharmacies exceeds 15 minutes
Hospital, low-cost health center and trauma-center deserts, where it
takes more than 30, 20 or 60 minutes to drive to each of these types
of facilities, respectively
Hospital bed deserts, where local hospitals have fewer than two beds
per 1,000 residents
Primary care deserts, where more than 50% of the population lives in a
primary care Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA), indicating a
low population-to-health care provider ratio as well as high poverty
rates, infant mortality rates or low birthweights and long travel
times to provider facilities

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