Ideal Provider/Patient Ratios

Delaware Health Force staff have executed deep research to gather an up-t0-date understanding of what national organizations recommend for ideal provider/patient ratios.  These ratios are influenced by local demographics, and are only presented as a guideline toward which Delaware can aspire. Actual national provider/patient ratios have also been researched, and this information will be updated on an annual basis.  You can see all of this information in the Excel document downloadable file.

For a quick Delaware overview, please click here to view a PDF of select healthcare professions and their relative abundance or scarcity throughout the state, and county by county. This is an easy to use, color-coded, document.

Please click here to download an Excel (XLXS) spreadsheet covering the complete NUCC Taxonomy with associated national ratios and ideal ratios of patients to providers

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