Health Matters: December 2025

FEATURED POST

Understanding Healthcare Access Through the Compendium of U.S. Health Systems

Measuring and evaluating access to healthcare has long been a challenge for researchers and policymakers. In many regions, outpatient facilities, hospitals, and physician practices operate as part of larger networks known as health systems. These systems influence where facilities are located, how patients navigate care, and the overall patient experience. See how mapping these systems alongside demographic and health data reveals gaps in access across urban and rural communities.

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POLICYMAP FOR SALESFORCE
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Introducing PolicyMap for Salesforce–Our New Salesforce App!

Bring PolicyMap’s reliable neighborhood data and state-of-the-art mapping into Salesforce! Gain real location context about the communities you serve, right where you already work. Power smarter decision-making, investing, reporting, and grant-making by connecting market data directly to your Salesforce.

PolicyMap for Salesforce enriches your Accounts, Opportunities, and Leads with demographic, housing, and health data, helping you quickly identify which records sit in areas that meet program criteria or qualify for community-based incentives. Ideal for nonprofits, lenders, community development organizations, government agencies, and healthcare teams, the app gives both new and existing PolicyMap users seamless, in-platform access to trusted data and neighborhood-level insights.

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CUSTOMER STORY
OSBHA

Data-Driven Planning for School-Based Health Centers

Using PolicyMap, the Ohio School-Based Health Alliance highlights where school-based health centers can have the greatest impact by pairing SBHC locations with data on care shortages, food insecurity, uninsured youth, and deep poverty.

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Updated Data

**New Data** PolicyMap calculated three new health datasets: predominant chronic conditions, chronic conditions prevalence, and Medicare chronic conditions prevalence.

*New Data* displaying Medicare-Accepting Provider locations from CMS, including the ability to filter to provider specialty, has been added to PolicyMap.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Compendium of U.S. Health Systems data is now available on PolicyMap. This release includes four new point datasets showing the locations of hospitals, nursing homes, outpatient sites, and home health care organizations that are part of a health system in the United States.

HUD Racially or Ethnically Concentrated Areas of Poverty data has been updated to 2020.

We are committed to our promise of curated, cleaned, standardized, and always updated data. We’re posting real-time updates on our website, X (formerly known as Twitter) and BlueSky.

In case you missed it

Published Research

Explore scholarly works from students and researchers using PolicyMap.

Social determinants of health shape treatment course and long term outcomes in patients with high-risk myeloproliferative neoplasms, published in ScienceDirect

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