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Science U.S. study gives Vermont #1 for best health care | U.S. study gives Vermont #1 for best health care |
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| by William Atkins | |
| Saturday, 10 October 2009 | |
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Science DiscussionsThe Scorecard on Health System Performance was released on Thursday, October 8, 2009. The CFC’s article “Aiming Higher: Results from a State Scorecard on Health System Performance, 2009” states that the goal of its study is to identify areas that can be improved. The 2009 State Scorecard, “… assesses states’ performance on health care relative to achievable benchmarks for 38 indicators of access, quality, costs, and health outcomes.” On the downside, the Scorecard shows that the nation’s health care systems are under “... stress, with deteriorating health insurance coverage for adults and rising health care costs.” On the upside, the Scorecard reports that, “... there were gains in children's coverage as a result of national reforms, and improvement in some measures of hospital and nursing home care following federal efforts to publicly report quality data.” However, overall, the 2009 State Scorecard finds that there is a wide gap in the quality of health care systems over the various states of the United States. Thirty-eight (38) indicators were used within the study including access to care, costs, insurance coverage, avoidable hospital admissions, health outcomes, and quality. Page two states the top six U.S. states, and the bottom six states. |
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