T11_1_22_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_22.3b
Home health care patients who were admitted to the hospital,^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	28.8	0.0	27.8	0.0	34.5	0.1	30.6	0.1
Alabama	36.1	0.2	35.2	0.2	38.9	0.3	39.7	3.3
Alaska	26.3	0.9	25.4	1.0	20.0	4.6	DSU	DSU
Arizona	22.0	0.2	21.5	0.2	26.0	1.0	25.5	0.6
Arkansas	35.7	0.2	34.9	0.3	41.4	0.7	35.5	3.4
California	22.5	0.1	21.2	0.1	30.8	0.3	26.5	0.2
Colorado	22.1	0.2	22.0	0.2	29.8	1.3	27.7	0.8
Connecticut	31.2	0.2	28.6	0.2	45.2	0.7	45.8	0.8
Delaware	23.0	0.3	21.8	0.4	27.7	0.8	21.2	2.3
District of Columbia	25.2	0.6	16.1	1.5	26.7	0.7	19.1	4.8
Florida	24.2	0.1	23.9	0.1	31.6	0.3	22.2	0.2
Georgia	30.5	0.1	29.7	0.2	33.3	0.3	23.2	1.6
Hawaii	22.0	0.5	21.1	1.0	25.6	6.7	26.9	3.7
Idaho	20.5	0.3	20.3	0.3	DSU	DSU	24.4	2.5
Illinois	29.5	0.1	28.0	0.1	34.6	0.2	30.2	0.4
Indiana	31.4	0.2	30.4	0.2	38.5	0.5	41.1	1.4
Iowa	29.9	0.3	29.4	0.3	45.6	1.7	38.6	3.1
Kansas	25.4	0.3	24.5	0.3	35.7	1.0	33.4	2.0
Kentucky	36.0	0.2	36.2	0.2	34.9	0.7	30.1	3.3
Louisiana	47.6	0.2	45.4	0.2	53.0	0.3	37.9	1.8
Maine	25.0	0.3	25.0	0.3	21.2	4.4	25.5	6.1
Maryland	23.8	0.2	22.7	0.2	27.6	0.4	20.0	1.6
Massachusetts	29.1	0.1	28.8	0.1	34.8	0.5	32.3	0.6
Michigan	25.1	0.1	25.9	0.1	22.8	0.2	26.5	0.9
Minnesota	25.7	0.2	24.8	0.2	35.2	1.0	37.1	2.3
Mississippi	44.7	0.2	42.6	0.3	48.9	0.4	45.5	4.5
Missouri	25.9	0.1	24.8	0.2	32.6	0.4	26.0	2.0
Montana	20.5	0.4	20.4	0.5	DSU	DSU	25.6	6.7
Nebraska	25.2	0.3	24.6	0.3	31.3	1.5	32.7	2.8
Nevada	27.2	0.3	27.0	0.3	31.9	0.9	26.5	1.0
New Hampshire	28.2	0.3	28.2	0.3	31.4	4.5	37.0	4.4
New Jersey	26.2	0.1	24.8	0.1	33.1	0.4	30.5	0.5
New Mexico	27.0	0.3	25.6	0.4	32.5	2.7	27.9	0.6
New York	30.2	0.1	27.3	0.1	38.2	0.2	37.9	0.3
North Carolina	27.1	0.1	25.9	0.1	31.3	0.3	24.6	1.4
North Dakota	22.4	0.6	22.2	0.6	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Ohio	30.7	0.1	29.7	0.1	36.1	0.3	33.4	1.2
Oklahoma	41.1	0.2	40.4	0.2	43.1	0.8	41.4	1.8
Oregon	20.8	0.2	20.5	0.2	29.5	1.9	25.1	2.1
Pennsylvania	24.8	0.1	24.5	0.1	28.1	0.3	26.3	0.7
Puerto Rico	24.4	0.3	21.4	6.3	41.7	7.1	24.3	0.3
Rhode Island	27.0	0.3	26.4	0.3	33.4	1.8	29.8	1.7
South Carolina	27.8	0.2	25.9	0.2	33.0	0.4	26.2	2.6
South Dakota	21.6	0.6	20.6	0.6	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Tennessee	37.3	0.1	37.2	0.2	38.1	0.4	33.3	2.8
Texas	38.7	0.1	37.6	0.1	42.8	0.2	39.8	0.2
Utah	16.7	0.2	16.6	0.3	13.7	3.1	22.8	1.6
Vermont	24.1	0.4	24.1	0.4	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Virgin Islands	26.7	3.0	DSU	DSU	27.6	3.3	DSU	DSU
Virginia	27.4	0.1	27.1	0.2	29.8	0.3	24.9	1.5
Washington	22.5	0.2	22.2	0.2	28.3	1.3	27.9	1.6
West Virginia	35.7	0.3	35.6	0.3	38.4	1.6	36.4	8.4
Wisconsin	25.3	0.2	24.4	0.2	34.0	0.8	31.9	1.7
Wyoming	26.2	0.7	26.2	0.8	DSU	DSU	22.7	4.3

^a. Episodes in which a person was hospitalized for an acute condition while receiving home health care services. Reason for hospitalization may be for emergent, urgent, or elective medical care.

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: T11_1_22_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_22_3b.html