Behavioral health provider desert map

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# Behavioral health provider desert map

For one county. Registry counts overstate access, so the map step checks which listings are real practices.

## 1. Who is registered

1. Search @[NPI Registry · Search](alexandria:npiregistry-cms-hhs-gov/providers/search) per ZIP (postal_code, state) for taxonomies Psychiatry, Psychologist, Clinical Social Worker, Counselor and Psychiatric/Mental Health nurse practitioner. Page with skip until has_more is false. Keep NPI, taxonomy and practice ZIP.
2. For organisations, read every site with @[NPI Registry · Locations](alexandria:npiregistry-cms-hhs-gov/providers/locations) (npi) so multi-site clinics count in each ZIP they serve.

## 2. Who needs care

3. Resolve the county's ZCTAs with @[US Census Bureau · Geographies](alexandria:census-gov/census/geographies), then pull population, uninsured share and poverty per ZCTA with @[US Census Bureau · Data](alexandria:census-gov/census/data) (acs/acs5).
4. Compute providers per 10,000 residents per ZIP; the bottom quartile are candidate deserts.

## 3. Reality check

5. For each candidate desert, search @[Maps · Search](alexandria:firecrawl-maps/businesses/search) ("mental health clinic in <ZIP>", "psychiatrist in <town>"). Practices with recent reviews are open; NPI addresses with no business on the map are likely billing or mailing addresses.

## 4. Money to fix it

6. Search @[Grants.gov · Search](alexandria:grants-gov/opportunities/search) (query behavioral health, crisis services, certified community behavioral health clinic; eligibilities county and nonprofit) and read deadlines with @[Grants.gov · Detail](alexandria:grants-gov/opportunities/detail).

## Write the map

- **Table per ZIP:** population, uninsured share, registered providers, verified open practices, providers per 10,000.
- **Deserts:** ranked list with the reason each qualifies.
- **Funding options:** opportunity number, deadline, eligible applicant, ceiling.
- **Sources:** NPIs, ACS tables, map listings, opportunity ids. Say that NPI data is self-reported and what could not be verified.

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