Health Matters: July 2025

FEATURED POST

Find the Right Community Partners for Your Health System—with Data

Health systems understand that improving community health requires addressing challenges like food and housing insecurity, but identifying the right partners can be a challenge. PolicyMap simplifies this process by combining social determinants of health data with nonprofit location and focus areas from Candid. With these insights, hospitals can pinpoint community needs and connect with organizations already working to make a difference.

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CUSTOMER STORY
Interact for health

Interact for Health

Interact for Health, a foundation dedicated to advancing health justice in the Greater Cincinnati region, uses PolicyMap to better understand social determinants of health (SDOH) and deploy resources effectively across their region. Interact for Health empowers 75 partner organizations in their network to conduct assessments, improve service delivery, and strategize community support.

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Michigan Health Endowment Fund

Michigan Health Endowment Fund

To illustrate the impact of the grant partners and locate service gaps in Michigan communities, the Michigan Health Endowment Fund relied on PolicyMap’s mapping platform and extensive SDOH data.

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WEBINAR RECORDING
The Role of Geography in Healthcare

The Role of Geography in Healthcare

PolicyMap’s latest MapChats webinar explores the transformative impact of spatial data and geospatial analysis in healthcare, from improving population health and system efficiency to driving innovation in life sciences and pharma. Gain insights from our expert panel included Ken Gross, VP of Real World Evidence at Royalty Pharma and Ariann Nassel, Director of Geospatial Data Visualization at the Lister Hill Center for Health Policy.

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Updated Data

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

*New Data* – The Credit Insecurity Index data has been newly added to PolicyMap. This data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York measures the ability of households to access mainstream credit and keep current on debt payments.

*New & Exclusive Data* – Housing Gap Estimates from Moody’s Analytics, PolicyMap, and Reinvestment Fund have been added to PolicyMap. The Housing Gap Estimates use American Communities Survey data to estimate the level of units of housing, both owner and renter, a given census tract is short. Data is available for the most recent 5 year ACS period (2019-2023), and for census tracts within 350 of the largest cities in the United States.

*New Data* – Claritas PRIZM® Premier is now available on PolicyMap! This detailed segmentation dataset offers insight into consumer behavior and lifestyle patterns across 68 demographic groups.

HRSA Hospitals and Nursing Facilities point datasets have been updated through 2025. This update expands the offering to include four new datasets: Home Health Agencies, Mental Health Services, Federally Qualified Health Centers, and a broader “Other Facilities” category, which features filterable types such as Rural Health Clinics and Hospice Centers.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) – Hospital Compare: Quality of Care has been updated through 2025.

Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap has been updated through 2023 and is available to all users. This update now includes food insecurity data disaggregated by race/ethnicity (Black, Hispanic, White non-Hispanic) as well as older adult and senior food insecurity at the state level. Check out the expanded descriptions and multi-indicator info bubbles too!

Pharmacy location data from Data Axle has been updated to 2025.

Data on point-in-time estimates of the homeless population from HUD’s Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) have been updated to 2024.

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.

Health Disparities After Redlining: A Comparative Analysis of Health Outcomes and Health Disparities in Richmond, Virginia and Portland, Oregon, published in Araneum: Richmond Journal of
American & Global Affairs

Telehealth-Readiness, Healthcare Access, and Cardiovascular Health in the Deep South: A Spatial Perspective, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Unincorporation in counties as a political determinant of health: An exploration of five states, published in ScienceDirect

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