Ohio micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Galion, Ohio
Direct answer
95 healthcare providers hold a Galion practice address, 92.2 per 10,000 of its 10,304 residents, 19 percent of them in physical, occupational, and speech therapy. Crawford County recorded 1 SBA healthcare approvals worth $50,500, and Mansfield, OH sits 13 miles out.
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- Population: 10,304 residents (10K-25K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 95 across 20 fields2
- Median household income: $45,3773
- Largest provider field: Physical, occupational, and speech therapy: 18 registered providers2
- Medicare-certified providers in town: 3 across 3 categories4
- Nearest metro: Mansfield, OH, 13 miles1
The clinical base a lender can verify here
The NPPES file puts 95 enumerated clinicians inside Galion, spread over 20 fields at 92.2 per 10,000 residents
| Field | Providers | Per 10,000 residents | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 18 | 17.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 10 | 9.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 9 | 8.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 8 | 7.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 8 | 7.8 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 7 | 6.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 7 | 6.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 5 | 4.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 5 | 4.9 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 3 | 2.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 3 | 2.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 3 | 2.9 | NPPES [2] |
| ABA and autism therapy | 2 | 1.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Podiatry | 1 | 1.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Mobile diagnostics | 1 | 1.0 | NPPES [2] |
| NEMT and ambulance | 1 | 1.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Hospice and palliative | 1 | 1.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Med spa and aesthetics | 1 | 1.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Hormone, TRT, and men's health clinics | 1 | 1.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Dialysis and infusion centers | 1 | 1.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 1 | CMS [4] | |
| Hospice providers | 1 | CMS [4] | |
| Dialysis facilities | 1 | CMS [4] | |
| Home health agencies | 1 | CMS [4] |
Several of the 18 physical, occupational, and speech therapy enumerations can belong to one practice, so the column counts clinicians rather than businesses or owners
Crawford County approvals, dollars, and lending establishments
1 healthcare approvals sit in the county file, so an appraiser here works from a short comparable set
| Measure | Published figure | What sits behind it |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare files approved | 1 | One published fiscal year, healthcare borrowers only [5] |
| Dollars behind them | $50,500 | Approved, not disbursed, and not net of withdrawals [5] |
| Typical approval size | $50,500 | A mean, so one large approval moves it [5] |
| Credit offices operating locally | 21 | Credit intermediation offices sited in the county [6] |
The consequence of these numbers
The ratio that matters up front is 92.2 per 10,000, which decides whether a ramp schedule reads as conservative. A short county record of 1 approvals usually means more documentation and a lower advance against the same collateral. Household income of $45,377 in Galion is the number a lender uses to sanity check the self-pay share of a revenue projection.
The programs this provider mix points at
- Practice acquisition
- Startup and de novo
- Working capital term loan
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
- Equipment financing and leasing
Ranked from the 20 fields that actually practice in Galion, weighted toward physical, occupational, and speech therapy. Availability still depends on Ohio and on the funding partner.
What a funder reads first in Galion
physical, occupational, and speech therapy, primary care and family medicine, skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care account for most of what is enumerated in Galion, so those are the files funders see from this town
| Specialty | Read first in underwriting | Why the money is usually needed |
|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (18) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Primary care and family medicine (10) | Panel size, Value-based contract exposure, Provider productivity | Acquisition |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care (9) | Census and occupancy, Staffing reporting, Survey history | Working capital |
Column one counts Galion clinicians from the federal file. Columns two and three describe how the field is usually underwritten, and a partner can read a Galion file differently.
How Galion prices against its neighbors
The neighboring markets below are the ones a valuation borrows from when Galion has too few sales of its own
| Comparable | People | Enumerations | Per 10,000 residents | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Galion (current) | 10,304 | 95 | 92.2 | |
| Bucyrus | 11,567 | 104 | 89.9 | 11 |
| Mansfield | 47,593 | 645 | 135.5 | 13 |
| Marion | 35,576 | 398 | 111.9 | 20 |
| Ashland | 18,770 | 204 | 108.7 | 26 |
| Mount Vernon | 17,329 | 267 | 154.1 | 29 |
| Tiffin | 17,729 | 239 | 134.8 | 33 |
Distance, income, and the wage floor around Galion
Mansfield, OH lies 13 miles from Galion, close enough that appraisers price the lease against Mansfield, OH rents while 10,304 residents set the revenue ceiling. Households here carry $45,377 in median income, and that ceiling decides how much of a treatment plan gets started rather than deferred. The hospital fixes two inputs a lender would otherwise estimate in a 10,304 resident town: where referrals originate, and what staff cost.
Other Ohio markets
Galion owners, answered
01How many providers practice in Galion, and in what?
NPPES lists 95 providers at a Galion practice address, 92.2 per 10,000 residents across 20 tracked fields. Physical, occupational, and speech therapy accounts for 18 of them, 19 percent of the total, with primary care and family medicine next at 10. Read that as clinicians: 95 enumerations, not 95 owners.
02What does Crawford County's shortage designation change?
HRSA designates Crawford County for primary care, dental, mental health. That opens loan repayment programs for clinicians recruited into Galion and evidences a staffing ramp in a 10,304 resident market.
03Why does Crawford County show so little SBA activity?
The published file records 1 7(a) and 504 approvals to healthcare borrowers in Crawford County. That tracks how few Crawford County practices changed hands that year, not credit quality. 21 credit intermediation establishments operate in Crawford County, so the lending capacity is local even where the healthcare history is not.
04How does the hospital in Galion affect a practice file?
It makes the staffing and referral lines checkable. 3 Medicare-certified providers hold Galion addresses, and the hospital sets the wage a clinical hire is bid against in a 92.2 per 10,000 market.
05Is Galion underwritten as part of Mansfield, OH?
Comparables and demand split at 13 miles. An appraiser prices the lease and the equipment off Mansfield, OH; the revenue line has to hold up against 10,304 local residents.
06What does a $45,377 median income mean for case acceptance?
Median household income in Galion runs $45,377. 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
- 4CMS Care Compare provider datasets
- 5U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 approvals
- 6U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022
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