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Table 1.122: Percent of acute care hospitalization^a for home health episodes,by State, 2002 and 2003

	2003			2002
State	Observed percent	Risk adjusted percent^c	Standard error of observed rate	Observed percent	Risk adjusted percent^c	Standard error of observed rate

United States	27.87		0.02	27.77		0.02

Alabama	33.08	29.25	0.18	32.52	27.79	0.19
Alaska	26.41	20.60	1.00	28.22	23.71	1.00
Arizona	20.12	22.73	0.20	20.33	22.76	0.22
Arkansas	35.03	31.67	0.26	34.64	30.90	0.26
California	21.56	22.44	0.07	21.28	22.53	0.08
Colorado	21.85	22.76	0.22	21.84	22.65	0.24
Connecticut	30.07	32.97	0.19	29.54	33.70	0.19
Delaware	27.95	28.65	0.42	27.63	29.90	0.39
District of Columbia	27.04	30.34	0.63	25.38	27.20	0.57
Florida	20.87	23.56	0.07	20.79	23.17	0.08
Georgia	29.64	28.56	0.17	29.96	28.20	0.17
Hawaii	25.34	25.04	0.54	25.57	26.43	0.52
Idaho	23.61	26.02	0.40	23.75	26.06	0.41
Illinois	27.72	27.65	0.12	27.90	27.84	0.12
Indiana	29.67	27.84	0.20	30.46	28.09	0.20
Iowa	32.19	31.32	0.28	31.82	30.35	0.28
Kansas	28.95	27.85	0.31	28.49	27.56	0.32
Kentucky	37.03	31.49	0.19	38.06	32.89	0.19
Louisiana	44.87	36.94	0.19	43.84	35.33	0.19
Maine	29.32	30.86	0.30	28.90	30.95	0.31
Maryland	22.54	24.55	0.18	23.98	25.64	0.19
Massachusetts	29.47	32.42	0.13	28.51	32.37	0.13
Michigan	25.73	26.84	0.11	25.61	27.08	0.11
Minnesota	27.51	28.58	0.24	28.11	29.54	0.25
Mississippi	39.27	35.21	0.23	39.21	34.81	0.23
Missouri	26.97	26.40	0.16	26.81	25.84	0.16
Montana	22.49	22.49	0.48	24.22	23.47	0.49
Nebraska	25.05	24.66	0.35	25.01	25.26	0.35
Nevada	24.70	24.14	0.33	25.15	24.31	0.36
New Hampshire	28.56	31.18	0.36	28.27	30.53	0.36
New Jersey	27.15	28.15	0.14	27.59	28.68	0.14
New Mexico	23.48	24.41	0.35	22.27	22.66	0.34
New York	29.94	30.09	0.10	30.42	31.01	0.10
North Carolina	27.87	29.69	0.14	28.49	29.63	0.14
North Dakota	23.82	21.52	0.53	24.57	22.15	0.52
Ohio	29.39	30.05	0.12	29.12	29.77	0.12
Oklahoma	36.10	32.67	0.22	35.08	31.41	0.23
Oregon	20.88	21.95	0.22	20.43	21.53	0.22
Pennsylvania	26.53	27.29	0.09	26.1	27.19	0.09
Puerto Rico^b				31.54	27.36	0.27
Rhode Island	24.37	26.36	0.30	24.33	25.64	0.31
South Carolina	29.38	30.61	0.21	29.00	30.43	0.22
South Dakota	23.33	20.04	0.55	22.96	21.68	0.55
Tennessee	34.41	30.93	0.16	33.70	30.07	0.16
Texas	33.62	31.66	0.10	32.05	29.71	0.10
Utah	18.83	21.89	0.29	19.36	21.92	0.30
Vermont	30.80	32.65	0.47	32.58	34.76	0.49
Virgin Islands^b				40.74	39.20	3.57
Virginia	27.57	26.31	0.16	27.86	25.95	0.17
Washington	21.23	22.59	0.19	21.05	23.02	0.19
West Virginia	35.43	28.26	0.30	36.16	28.34	0.31
Wisconsin	26.66	26.67	0.22	27.11	27.35	0.22
Wyoming	24.90	26.78	0.74	27.08	28.20	0.78

^aConsumer language used on the CMS Home Health Compare Web site for this measure is: Percentage of patients who had to be admitted to the hospital.

^bData not available for year 2003.

^cOnly observed national rate reported as in Home Health Compare.

Source: Calculated by the Center for Health Services and Policy Research, University of Colorado, from Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) data.

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Table 1.122: Percent of acute care hospitalizationa for home health episodes,by State, 2002 and 2003

Table 1.122: Percent of acute care hospitalization^a for home health episodes,by State, 2002 and 2003