California micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Mendota, California
Direct answer
Fresno County carries 21 SBA healthcare approvals worth $12,310,100, and inside Mendota the census shows 19 enumerated clinicians against 12,623 residents, 15.1 per 10,000, 32 percent of them in primary care and family medicine. Fresno, CA lies 33 miles away.
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- Population: 12,623 residents (10K-25K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 19 across 9 fields2
- Median household income: $46,4583
- Largest provider field: Primary care and family medicine: 6 registered providers2
- Nearest metro: Fresno, CA, 33 miles1
- SBA healthcare approvals in the county: 21 approvals totaling $12,310,1004
Who is enumerated in Mendota
15.1 providers per 10,000 residents is what 19 enumerations across 9 fields works out to in a town of 12,623
| Field | Providers | Per 10,000 residents | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary care and family medicine | 6 | 4.8 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 3 | 2.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 3 | 2.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 2 | 1.6 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| SUD treatment and residential | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Ketamine, TMS, and interventional psychiatry | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Telehealth and virtual clinics | 1 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
A single Mendota practice can hold more than one of these numbers. 32 percent sit in primary care and family medicine, counted as clinicians rather than as owners.
What lenders have already approved in Fresno County
The published file shows 21 healthcare approvals in Fresno County, $12,310,100 in total, and that history is what an appraiser and a credit committee reach for
| Measure | Published figure | What sits behind it |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare files approved | 21 | Counted for the fiscal year the SBA publishes [4] |
| Dollars behind them | $12,310,100 | Everything approved to healthcare borrowers, added up [4] |
| Typical approval size | $586,195 | The dollar column over the approval column [4] |
| Credit offices operating locally | 379 | Places that write credit locally, NAICS 522 [5] |
Reading Mendota the way a credit committee does
Density of 15.1 per 10,000 sets the patient draw a projection can claim without an argument. Because Fresno County already carries $12,310,100 across 21 healthcare approvals, a request near that average moves faster than one well above it. Household income of $46,458 in Mendota is the number a lender uses to sanity check the self-pay share of a revenue projection.
Programs the Mendota mix reaches for
- Practice acquisition
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
- Commercial real estate, owner-occupied
- Equipment financing and leasing
- Startup and de novo
Weighted by how often each of the 9 local fields reaches for a program, not by what is easiest to refer. California rules and the partner decide availability.
Underwriting by field in Mendota
primary care and family medicine, general dentistry, specialty physician groups account for most of what is enumerated in Mendota, so those are the files funders see from this town
| Field | What the file turns on | The capital event behind most requests |
|---|---|---|
| Primary care and family medicine (6) | Panel size, Value-based contract exposure, Provider productivity | Acquisition |
| General dentistry (3) | Three years of collections history, Hygiene as a share of collections, Overhead ratio and owner add-backs | Acquisition of an established practice |
| Specialty physician groups (3) | Ancillary revenue contribution, Provider productivity, Payer contracts | Ancillary build-out |
Column one counts Mendota clinicians from the federal file. Columns two and three describe how the field is usually underwritten, and a partner can read a Mendota file differently.
Mendota against nearby California markets
Density is the number that moves an appraisal: 15.1 per 10,000 here
| Market | Population | Clinicians | Density per 10,000 | Distance in miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mendota (current) | 12,623 | 19 | 15.1 | |
| Kerman | 17,497 | 39 | 22.3 | 18 |
| Madera | 69,094 | 421 | 60.9 | 22 |
| Chowchilla | 19,191 | 50 | 26.1 | 26 |
| Los Banos | 48,684 | 128 | 26.3 | 33 |
| Merced | 96,073 | 704 | 73.3 | 39 |
| Coalinga | 16,722 | 36 | 21.5 | 43 |
Distance, income, and the wage floor around Mendota
Fresno, CA lies 33 miles from Mendota, close enough for rent comparables to travel and far enough that patient draw does not. Households here carry $46,458 in median income, and that ceiling decides how much of a treatment plan gets started rather than deferred. With no hospital in town, a projection has to name where referrals and coverage come from.
Nearby California towns
Questions from Mendota
01How many providers practice in Mendota, and in what?
Across 9 fields, Mendota carries 19 enumerated clinicians, 15.1 per 10,000 of the 12,623 people living here. The concentration is in primary care and family medicine, 6 of the total, then general dentistry at 3. Count practices from that only with care.
02What does Fresno County's shortage designation change?
The primary care, dental, mental health designation HRSA carries on Fresno County is a recruiting instrument: it puts repayment incentives in front of candidates, which is how a hiring plan for 12,623 residents gets past the question of who would take the job.
03Is Mendota underwritten as part of Fresno, CA?
Fresno, CA sits 33 miles away, close enough that appraisers reach into that market for rent and resale comparables while your patient draw stays local. The comparables read Fresno, CA; the 12,623 residents set the ceiling a projection can defend.
04What does SBA lending look like around Mendota?
Healthcare borrowers in Fresno County took 21 approvals worth $12,310,100 in the published fiscal year, averaging $586,195. That is the comparable set an appraiser near Mendota reaches for first.
05Is there local lending capacity in Fresno County?
County Business Patterns records 379 credit intermediation establishments in Fresno County. That is the local origination bench, and it decides whether a file gets underwritten by somebody who has seen Mendota rents and resale before or by somebody working from a screen.
06What does a $46,458 median income mean for case acceptance?
Median household income in Mendota runs $46,458. On elective and cash-pay work that is the number a funder converts into case acceptance, and it sets how much of a treatment plan a projection can assume gets started rather than deferred.
Sources
- 1U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates, vintage 2024
- 2CMS NPPES, monthly full replacement file
- 3U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year 2023, table B19013
- 4U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 approvals
- 5U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022
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