Table 9_2_8-3

2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 9_2_8.3
Home health care patients who had to be admitted to the hospital, by State, 2005 and 2007^a
State	2007			2005
State	Number of providers	Percent	SE	Number of providers	Percent	SE
Total	8,972	31.9	0.13	6,990	30.9	0.1
Alabama	143	31.1	0.70	140	31.7	0.7
Alaska	16	24.1	1.85	12	23.9	2.8
Arizona	85	26.8	1.03	67	25.0	0.9
Arkansas	172	35.6	0.78	161	35.1	0.8
California	649	26.5	0.39	540	25.2	0.4
Colorado	134	28.6	0.93	113	28.2	0.9
Connecticut	82	35.9	1.16	80	35.4	1.2
Delaware	18	27.3	1.78	14	27.6	2.2
District of Columbia	23	26.0	2.73	15	31.1	1.9
Florida	803	24.9	0.33	532	24.7	0.4
Georgia	98	28.2	0.78	95	30.2	0.9
Hawaii	14	23.5	1.63	14	25.2	1.7
Idaho	48	24.7	1.07	49	24.4	0.9
Illinois	483	32.9	0.55	304	30.3	0.6
Indiana	186	34.4	0.85	146	32.8	0.9
Iowa	175	36.1	1.12	162	34.8	0.9
Kansas	129	28.7	1.15	111	28.7	0.9
Kentucky	102	34.2	0.81	99	32.8	0.8
Louisiana	218	43.3	0.83	205	42.2	0.8
Maine	29	27.7	1.64	28	27.0	1.5
Maryland	48	24.6	0.82	45	24.9	0.8
Massachusetts	127	34.1	0.98	103	34.3	0.9
Michigan	380	28.8	0.44	257	27.3	0.4
Minnesota	200	32.7	1.04	163	32.7	1.0
Mississippi	54	40.1	1.39	54	37.5	1.3
Missouri	167	26.9	0.72	146	26.7	0.7
Montana	35	24.2	1.35	34	25.5	1.4
Nebraska	68	25.3	1.03	57	25.1	1.3
Nevada	68	27.8	1.05	50	26.7	0.9
New Hampshire	36	30.4	1.54	33	33.5	1.6
New Jersey	49	27.7	0.76	48	29.0	0.8
New Mexico	66	29.0	1.27	59	27.9	1.3
New York	185	39.3	1.35	183	39.6	1.3
North Carolina	168	30.9	0.53	162	30.8	0.6
North Dakota	23	22.1	2.87	25	23.0	2.1
Ohio	467	37.3	0.69	323	34.5	0.7
Oklahoma	214	39.2	0.80	187	37.2	0.8
Oregon	56	22.1	0.85	59	21.1	0.7
Pennsylvania	295	25.2	0.52	237	26.2	0.5
Rhode Island	22	30.1	1.94	21	30.6	1.4
South Carolina	67	31.7	0.95	65	32.3	0.8
South Dakota	39	22.6	1.79	34	22.4	1.9
Tennessee	139	33.4	0.72	133	33.6	0.7
Texas	1,798	37.7	0.32	1,127	35.6	0.3
Utah	68	21.2	0.90	46	22.7	1.0
Vermont	12	30.0	1.24	12	32.8	1.5
Virginia	185	29.1	0.72	150	27.5	0.6
Washington	60	21.9	0.67	57	22.0	0.6
West Virginia	61	28.8	1.18	57	27.9	1.0
Wisconsin	126	27.7	1.02	102	28.2	1.1
Wyoming	27	25.4	1.92	22	26.1	1.6

^a Data were downloaded from http://www.medicare.gov/Download/DownloadDB.asp on March 31, 2006, for the 2005 estimates and on April 18, 2008, for the 2007 estimates.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Outcome and Assessment Information Set.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 9_2_8-3: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/9_nursinghome_homehealth_hospice/T9_2_8-3.html