Ohio micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Wooster, Ohio
Direct answer
Wayne County carries 2 SBA healthcare approvals worth $270,000, and inside Wooster the census shows 457 enumerated clinicians against 26,982 residents, 169.4 per 10,000, 21 percent of them in behavioral and mental health group practices. Akron, OH lies 28 miles away.
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- Population: 26,982 residents (25K-50K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 457 across 32 fields2
- Median household income: $65,8883
- Largest provider field: Behavioral and mental health group practices: 95 registered providers2
- Medicare-certified providers in town: 8 across 4 categories4
- Nearest metro: Akron, OH, 28 miles1
Wooster clinicians, by field
The NPPES file puts 457 enumerated clinicians inside Wooster, spread over 32 fields at 169.4 per 10,000 residents
| Practice type | Count | Rate per 10,000 residents | Published by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 95 | 35.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 89 | 33.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 40 | 14.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 27 | 10.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 25 | 9.3 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 23 | 8.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 23 | 8.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 15 | 5.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Dental specialties | 14 | 5.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 13 | 4.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 12 | 4.4 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 9 | 3.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 9 | 3.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Audiology and hearing centers | 9 | 3.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Med spa and aesthetics | 9 | 3.3 | NPPES [2] |
| ABA and autism therapy | 6 | 2.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Podiatry | 5 | 1.9 | NPPES [2] |
| SUD treatment and residential | 5 | 1.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Ketamine, TMS, and interventional psychiatry | 4 | 1.5 | NPPES [2] |
| ASCs and OBLs | 3 | 1.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Clinical and toxicology labs | 3 | 1.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Occupational health and drug testing | 3 | 1.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Dermatology | 2 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Urgent care | 2 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Hormone, TRT, and men's health clinics | 2 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Plastic and cosmetic surgery | 2 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Dialysis and infusion centers | 2 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Telehealth and virtual clinics | 2 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Sleep centers | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Pain management and interventional | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| NEMT and ambulance | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Hospice and palliative | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 11 | CMS [4] | |
| Ambulatory surgical centers | 3 | CMS [4] | |
| Dialysis facilities | 2 | CMS [4] | |
| Home health agencies | 2 | CMS [4] | |
| Hospice providers | 1 | CMS [4] |
Several of the 95 behavioral and mental health group practices enumerations can belong to one practice, so the column counts clinicians rather than businesses or owners
Wayne County approvals, dollars, and lending establishments
2 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 | 2 | Counted for the fiscal year the SBA publishes [5] |
| Dollars behind them | $270,000 | Everything approved to healthcare borrowers, added up [5] |
| Typical approval size | $135,000 | The dollar column over the approval column [5] |
| Credit offices operating locally | 58 | Places that write credit locally, NAICS 522 [6] |
What the two tables above change about a file
Underwriting starts with 169.4 providers per 10,000 residents, because that ratio caps how fast a chair or a room fills. A short county record of 2 approvals usually means more documentation and a lower advance against the same collateral. Household income of $65,888 in Wooster 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
- Working capital term loan
- Startup and de novo
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
- Equipment financing and leasing
Ranked from the 32 fields that actually practice in Wooster, weighted toward behavioral and mental health group practices. Availability still depends on Ohio and on the funding partner.
The first pages of a Wooster file
Drawn from the fields that actually practice here: behavioral and mental health group practices, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, primary care and family medicine
| Practice type | The pages that decide it | Typical capital event |
|---|---|---|
| Behavioral and mental health group practices (95) | Clinician retention and productivity, Payer mix and Medicaid concentration, Re-authorization and session limit exposure | Working capital through the credentialing lag |
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (89) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Primary care and family medicine (40) | Panel size, Value-based contract exposure, Provider productivity | Acquisition |
Local counts come from NPPES. What a file turns on is drawn from how the field is generally reviewed, not from any decision about your practice.
How Wooster prices against its neighbors
169.4 per 10,000 is the figure a neighboring town gets compared against when an appraiser prices Wooster
| Market | Population | Clinicians | Density per 10,000 | Distance in miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wooster (current) | 26,982 | 457 | 169.4 | |
| Wadsworth | 24,753 | 231 | 93.3 | 18 |
| Ashland | 18,770 | 204 | 108.7 | 20 |
| New Franklin | 13,859 | 16 | 11.5 | 20 |
| Massillon | 32,750 | 336 | 102.6 | 21 |
| Norton | 11,423 | 72 | 63.0 | 21 |
| Barberton | 24,624 | 215 | 87.3 | 21 |
Distance, income, and the wage floor around Wooster
Akron, OH lies 28 miles from Wooster, close enough for rent comparables to travel and far enough that patient draw does not. Households here carry $65,888 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 26,982 resident town: where referrals originate, and what staff cost. Higher education here explains why summer looks unlike the rest of the year. Wooster is the Wayne County seat, so county employment steadies the payer mix.
Nearby Ohio towns
Questions from Wooster
01How many providers practice in Wooster, and in what?
NPPES lists 457 providers at a Wooster practice address, 169.4 per 10,000 residents across 32 tracked fields. Behavioral and mental health group practices accounts for 95 of them, 21 percent of the total, with physical, occupational, and speech therapy next at 89. Read that as clinicians: 457 enumerations, not 457 owners.
02Which fields carry the volume in Wooster?
Behavioral and mental health group practices at 95 providers and physical, occupational, and speech therapy at 89 lead the 32 fields enumerated here. A funder reads that mix as the local competition set and the local hiring pool at once, before it reads a single line of your own numbers.
03Why does Wayne County show so little SBA activity?
Wayne County shows 2 approvals in the SBA healthcare file, which means an appraiser reaches outside the county for comparables. Few sales, not weak credit, is the usual reason. 58 lending establishments operate locally.
04How does the hospital in Wooster affect a practice file?
A Medicare-certified hospital operates in the town, which gives referral flow, a call schedule, and a clinical labor pool a funder can verify. 8 Medicare-certified providers are located here in total. It also sets the wage floor behind every hire in a 169.4 per 10,000 market.
05What does Wayne County's shortage designation change?
The primary care, mental health designation HRSA carries on Wayne County is a recruiting instrument: it puts repayment incentives in front of candidates, which is how a hiring plan for 26,982 residents gets past the question of who would take the job.
06Is there local lending capacity in Wayne County?
County Business Patterns records 58 credit intermediation establishments in Wayne County. That is the local origination bench, and it decides whether a file gets underwritten by somebody who has seen Wooster rents and resale before or by somebody working from a screen.
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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