32 of 40 Mississippi rural hospitals have no within 30 miles.
Sixty million rural Americans live too far from the specialists they need. This map shows where the gaps are.
Click any county or hospital to explore speciality gaps
Learn how Tenens Health is solving the coverage gapWhy this exists
Rural America has 30 physicians per 100,000 people. Cities have 263. The shortage is not a secret, but it persists because the people with power to fix it make five-to-thirty-year commitments from data that is years stale and aggregated to the state level. County averages hide the hospital-by-hospital reality.
The Healthcare Speciality Coverage Gap Index™ maps that reality: hospital by hospital, specialty by specialty, built from public CMS data and precise enough to inform a placement or funding decision. We started with Mississippi because it has 40 Critical Access Hospitals and some of the deepest gaps in the country. All 50 states are next.
How to read this map
Each county is shaded by the worst-case gap count among its Critical Access Hospitals (the highest number of HIGH or CRITICAL specialty gaps recorded across any CAH in that county). 35 of 82 Mississippi counties contain a federally designated CAH; the rest appear gray.
The dots represent the 40 CAHs, colored by gap severity. Click any dot to see the full specialty breakdown for that hospital. Read the methodology for a full explanation of data sources, radius definitions, and known limitations.