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Health Professions Resource Center

Health Profession Fact Sheet

The Health Professions Resource Center(HPRC) tracks the supply, distribution, and demographics of over 40 health professions across Texas.

Health Profession Supply

Annually, the HPRC collects licensure data from licensing boards to develop supply tables that include the number of providers per county, ratio of population to provider, and ratio of provider to population.

Workforce Supply & Demand Projections

Projected supply and demand for the nurse, physician, oral health, behavioral health, and physician assistant workforce are estimated for Texas statewide and by public health region, urban-rural classification, and metropolitan/border status using the GlobalData Health Workforce Microsimulation Model. County level projections are not available.

Texas Center for Nursing Workforce

Licensed Vocational Nurses

Demographics and trends for vocational nurses in Texas.

Professional Nursing Education

Admission, Enrollment, and Graduation trends, student demographics, faculty numbers and demographics, and program characteristics for Professional Nursing education programs in Texas.

Registered Nurses

Demographics and trends for registered nurses in Texas.

Vocational Nursing Education

Admission, Enrollment, and Graduation trends, student demographics, faculty numbers and demographics, and program characteristics for Vocational Nursing education programs in Texas.

Workforce Supply & Demand Projections

Projected supply and demand for the nurse, physician, oral health, behavioral health, and physician assistant workforce are estimated for Texas statewide and by public health region, urban-rural classification, and metropolitan/border status using the GlobalData Health Workforce Microsimulation Model. County level projections are not available.

Administrative Hospital Data

Discharge & Mortality

The Discharge & Mortality dashboard displays preventable deaths and hospitalizations among Texans from 2012-2014.

Emergency Department Use

The Emergency Department Use dashboard uses collected inpatient and outpatient data from hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers.

Inpatient Use

The Texas Health Care Information Collection program (THCIC) collects discharge data from state licensed hospitals except those statutorily exempt from the reporting requirement. This dashboard displays data from patients who received inpatient care without being seen in a hospital emergency department. Data are summarized by 1) Primary Diagnosis Groups, which includes the Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC) or All-Patient Refined-Diagnosis Related Groups (APR-DRG) classification systems or by 2) Procedure Groups, a classification system for categorizing types of outpatient procedures.

Outpatient Use

The Texas Health Care Information Collection program (THCIC) collects discharge data from state licensed hospitals except those statutorily exempt from the reporting requirement. This dashboard displays data from patients who received inpatient care without being seen in a hospital emergency department. Data are summarized either by Principle Diagnostic Group, which describes the diagnoses the patient received treatment for during their stay, or by Procedure Groups, a classification system for categorizing outpatient procedures.

Texas Hospital Data

The dashboard shows utilization, charity, and admission data of Texas Hospitals. It also offers an interactive platform where users can apply filters to explore the data across various years.

Quality & Prevention

Hospital Quality Indicators

Quality Indicators (QIs) are standardized, evidence-based measures of health care quality that can be used with readily available hospital inpatient administrative data to measure and track clinical performance and outcomes.

Potentially Preventable Complications

Uses the emergency department data from the inpatient discharge research data of Texas from THCIC to interactively display yearly in-hospital complications from emergency department visits, admissions, and readmissions indicative of harmful events or negative outcomes that might result from processes of care and treatment, from Texas hospitals

Potentially Preventable Readmissions

Uses the emergency department data from the inpatient discharge research data of Texas from THCIC to interactively display yearly readmissions, an indicator of quality of healthcare, from Texas hospitals

Potentially Preventable Visits

Uses the potentially preventable emergency visits research data of Texas from THCIC to interacticely display inpatient and outpatient data from 702 hospitals, 527 ambulatory surgical centers, and 299 freestanding emergency medical facilities in Texas.