Medical Office Feasibility Study in the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about medical office (physicians) lending in the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Providence medical: small physician-office loans across two states

Medical office (physicians) is class 8 of 39 in the area, and Providence and Warwick is 31 of 488 among areas. Its location quotient of 0.87x places physician offices a little under their country-wide weight. The area reaches into Massachusetts; the files hold 44 loans for $14.8 million, FY2017 to FY2026. Size is the Providence and Warwick story for medical office: $140,750 at the median, 0.41x of the countrywide medical office median, within a $98,250 to $258,250 band. The central loans bunch in a narrow band, and the median is well under half the national figure.

Program choice in Providence and Warwick: SBA 7(a) for 37 medical office loans, SBA 504 for 7. Providence and Warwick medical office loans under a flag come to 0.00%. Providence County contributes 26, Kent County contributes 8, Bristol County contributes 5, and Washington County contributes 5. SBA 7(a) holders printed: $2.1 million from 6 loans carried by TD Bank, National Association and $660,500 from 5 loans carried by Citizens Bank, National Association. The lender columns show the holder on record, not a view of what TD Bank, National Association will fund.

SBA files for Providence and Warwick medical office show loans approved FY2017 to FY2024 lost at least 18.4% to cancellation, a minimum, not an estimate. For Providence and Warwick medical office borrowers, Loan Analytics withholds the ceiling that counts undisbursed loans and any charge-off figure, as few loans support either; withheld never means zero. In FY2017, 8 approvals worth $1.0 million; in FY2018, 11 approvals worth $2.5 million; in FY2021, 7 approvals worth $4.4 million; and in FY2023, 6 approvals worth $2.0 million.

What a Providence practice study tests

A study for a practice here should test patient volume and payer mix, the building or suite, equipment, and a payment that holds if one clinician leaves. The appraisal should say whether value rests on leasehold, goodwill or real estate. A medical office loan belongs to Providence and Warwick by the county of the project against the July 2023 delineation. An unmatched loan goes uncounted. With a $140,750 median against a $98,250 to $258,250 band, a request well outside that band needs a reason of its own, and none of the 44 loans guarantees funding for a new one.

SBA medical office (physicians) loans in the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202644
Gross dollars approved$14.8 million
Median loan$140,750
Middle half of loans, from$98,250
Middle half of loans, to$258,250
SBA 7(a) loans37
SBA 504 loans7
Franchise share of loans0.00%
Rank among metro and micro areas for medical office (physicians) loans31 of 488
Rank of medical office (physicians) among the classes in this area8 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)0.87x
Median loan against the national median for the class0.41x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)18.4%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)withheld
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)withheld

Both rates are floors. SBA withholds the status of open loans, so a loan counts as charged off only once SBA reports it; a rate needs at least 30 loans in its cohort and is otherwise not reported.

SBA medical office (physicians) loans approved in the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA Metro Area, by fiscal year

02.557.51012.5FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 8Loans, FY2018: 11Loans, FY2020: 0Loans, FY2021: 7Loans, FY2023: 6
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY20178$1.0 million
FY201811$2.5 million
FY2019withheldwithheld
FY20200$0
FY20217$4.4 million
FY2022withheldwithheld
FY20236$2.0 million
FY2024withheldwithheld
FY2025withheldwithheld
FY2026withheldwithheld

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
TD Bank, National Association6$2.1 million
Citizens Bank, National Association5$660,500

Lenders with 5 or more loans here; a lender with fewer is not listed, and loans SBA or a receiver holds are counted but never listed as a lender.

Where the loans are, by county

CountyLoans
Providence County, RI26
Kent County, RI8
Bristol County, MA5
Washington County, RI5

Counties with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are not listed.

Metro is the CBSA (metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area) of the loan's project county, July 2023 delineation (OMB Bulletin 23-01). The county is matched by name (manifests/ld2/county-cbsa-map.csv); a loan whose county cannot be placed in a 2023 CBSA is left out of every metro.

A value marked withheld rests on fewer than 5 loans, or is withheld so that such a figure cannot be derived from other published figures.

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 loan-level FOIA files (data.sba.gov), as of 2026-09-30; areas from the U.S. Census Bureau CBSA delineation, July 2023 (OMB Bulletin 23-01); Loan Analytics metro cell MA-39300-C32.

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