Table 11_1_10_3b

2011 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 11_1_10.3b
Home health care patients who stayed at home after an episode of home health care ended,^a by ethnicity and State, United States, 2009
			Non-Hispanic				Hispanic, all races
	Total		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	67.8	0.0	68.6	0.0	62.7	0.1	65.8	0.1
Alabama	59.4	0.2	60.2	0.2	57.0	0.3	54.7	3.3
Alaska	69.1	1.0	70.1	1.1	78.7	4.7	82.2	5.7
Arizona	74.6	0.2	75.0	0.2	70.8	1.1	71.4	0.6
Arkansas	59.6	0.2	60.3	0.3	54.6	0.7	59.3	3.5
California	74.3	0.1	75.5	0.1	66.4	0.3	70.6	0.2
Colorado	74.0	0.2	73.9	0.2	66.9	1.3	68.4	0.8
Connecticut	65.2	0.2	67.7	0.2	51.8	0.7	49.7	0.8
Delaware	74.3	0.4	75.4	0.4	70.3	0.8	75.4	2.5
District of Columbia	73.1	0.6	81.9	1.5	71.6	0.7	79.4	4.9
Florida	72.0	0.1	72.2	0.1	65.4	0.3	74.3	0.2
Georgia	66.0	0.2	66.6	0.2	63.8	0.3	73.4	1.6
Hawaii	74.6	0.5	74.7	1.0	71.4	7.0	70.3	3.8
Idaho	74.1	0.4	74.2	0.4	76.9	6.8	72.1	2.6
Illinois	67.3	0.1	68.9	0.1	62.8	0.2	65.2	0.4
Indiana	64.9	0.2	65.7	0.2	58.3	0.5	55.3	1.5
Iowa	65.7	0.3	66.2	0.3	50.6	1.7	55.9	3.2
Kansas	70.8	0.3	71.6	0.3	61.4	1.0	62.4	2.0
Kentucky	60.6	0.2	60.4	0.2	62.5	0.7	67.0	3.4
Louisiana	46.9	0.2	49.1	0.2	41.7	0.3	55.8	1.9
Maine	71.8	0.3	71.8	0.3	78.6	4.5	68.6	6.5
Maryland	74.1	0.2	75.0	0.2	70.9	0.4	78.7	1.6
Massachusetts	67.9	0.1	68.2	0.1	62.9	0.5	64.6	0.6
Michigan	72.4	0.1	71.1	0.1	75.7	0.2	70.5	0.9
Minnesota	70.8	0.2	71.7	0.2	61.5	1.0	59.5	2.4
Mississippi	50.9	0.2	52.9	0.3	46.9	0.4	48.8	4.5
Missouri	70.9	0.2	71.8	0.2	65.2	0.4	71.0	2.1
Montana	75.2	0.5	75.3	0.5	DSU	DSU	69.8	7.0
Nebraska	71.0	0.3	71.6	0.3	64.9	1.5	64.3	2.9
Nevada	69.0	0.3	69.3	0.3	63.9	0.9	69.4	1.1
New Hampshire	68.2	0.3	68.2	0.3	64.8	4.7	60.5	4.5
New Jersey	71.3	0.1	72.5	0.2	64.9	0.4	67.7	0.6
New Mexico	68.0	0.4	68.9	0.4	60.9	2.8	68.1	0.6
New York	67.6	0.1	70.5	0.1	60.0	0.2	59.5	0.3
North Carolina	69.8	0.1	70.9	0.1	66.2	0.3	72.0	1.5
North Dakota	73.1	0.6	73.4	0.6	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Ohio	66.3	0.1	67.2	0.1	61.6	0.3	63.6	1.2
Oklahoma	53.2	0.2	53.8	0.2	51.5	0.8	54.4	1.8
Oregon	74.8	0.2	74.9	0.2	68.2	2.0	72.1	2.2
Pennsylvania	72.6	0.1	72.8	0.1	70.3	0.3	71.8	0.7
Puerto Rico	72.0	0.3	69.1	7.1	53.2	7.3	72.1	0.3
Rhode Island	70.3	0.3	70.9	0.3	63.8	1.8	68.2	1.7
South Carolina	68.9	0.2	70.7	0.2	64.3	0.4	71.1	2.7
South Dakota	74.1	0.6	75.1	0.6	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Tennessee	59.3	0.2	59.3	0.2	58.8	0.4	64.4	2.9
Texas	56.0	0.1	56.9	0.1	52.5	0.2	55.5	0.2
Utah	77.6	0.3	77.7	0.3	82.8	3.4	71.6	1.7
Vermont	71.0	0.4	71.0	0.4	81.0	6.1	DSU	DSU
Virgin Islands	67.3	3.1	DSU	DSU	67.6	3.5	DSU	DSU
Virginia	69.7	0.1	69.8	0.2	68.1	0.3	72.5	1.6
Washington	74.0	0.2	74.1	0.2	68.8	1.3	70.3	1.7
West Virginia	60.8	0.3	60.8	0.3	58.3	1.7	60.6	8.5
Wisconsin	71.4	0.2	72.2	0.2	64.1	0.8	66.3	1.7
Wyoming	68.9	0.8	68.7	0.8	DSU	DSU	73.2	4.5

^a. Episodes with final assessments indicating patient remained at home at the conclusion of services. Excludes records with missing race values.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: Table 11_1_10_3b: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/11_supportive_palliative_care/T11_1_10_3b.html