Table 10_1_3-3

2009 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 10_1_3.3
Long-stay nursing home residents whose ability to move about in and around their room got worse, by State, 2002 and 2008^a
	2008		2002
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	11.8	0.1	12.0	0.1
Alabama	9.4	0.4	11.2	0.4
Alaska	11.4	2.3	10.5	2.6
Arizona	9.9	0.7	10.5	0.6
Arkansas	11.1	0.5	11.4	0.5
California	9.5	0.3	10.7	0.2
Colorado	11.1	0.6	13.6	0.6
Connecticut	12.9	0.5	13.7	0.5
Delaware	15.0	1.4	13.0	1.1
District of Columbia	7.0	1.2	11.9	1.6
Florida	9.2	0.3	11.3	0.3
Georgia	10.4	0.4	10.6	0.4
Hawaii	12.2	1.4	14.3	1.3
Idaho	10.9	1.2	12.4	1.0
Illinois	11.5	0.3	9.6	0.3
Indiana	13.9	0.4	14.9	0.4
Iowa	10.3	0.4	10.9	0.4
Kansas	11.0	0.5	10.3	0.4
Kentucky	12.7	0.6	13.2	0.5
Louisiana	10.3	0.4	11.1	0.4
Maine	15.6	1.0	17.2	1.1
Maryland	12.4	0.6	13.5	0.6
Massachusetts	12.7	0.3	15.1	0.4
Michigan	10.3	0.4	11.1	0.3
Minnesota	11.5	0.4	11.9	0.3
Mississippi	12.2	0.8	10.8	0.5
Missouri	9.3	0.3	10.3	0.4
Montana	10.6	0.9	11.2	0.9
Nebraska	12.0	0.6	13.9	0.6
Nevada	16.8	1.2	12.6	1.0
New Hampshire	14.9	1.1	14.2	1.0
New Jersey	9.9	0.3	11.8	0.4
New Mexico	12.2	1.0	11.4	0.9
New York	14.3	0.3	12.4	0.3
North Carolina	13.8	0.5	11.7	0.4
North Dakota	12.9	0.7	13.7	0.8
Ohio	11.2	0.3	11.3	0.2
Oklahoma	8.3	0.4	9.1	0.4
Oregon	9.6	1.0	11.0	0.7
Pennsylvania	17.8	0.3	20.0	0.4
Rhode Island	12.0	0.7	11.5	0.6
South Carolina	10.0	0.6	10.8	0.5
South Dakota	12.7	0.7	12.4	0.7
Tennessee	9.7	0.4	12.0	0.4
Texas	13.2	0.3	10.4	0.2
Utah	9.0	0.7	9.8	1.2
Vermont	17.4	1.0	17.9	1.0
Virginia	14.4	0.5	12.0	0.5
Washington	12.0	0.6	11.6	0.5
West Virginia	12.8	0.7	13.6	0.7
Wisconsin	12.6	0.4	11.1	0.3
Wyoming	10.9	1.0	11.0	0.9

^a Data were downloaded from http://www.medicare.gov/nhcompare/home.asp. The 2008 data reflect care for the last quarter, and the 2002 data reflect care for the second quarter of the calendar year. Facilities with fewer than 30 residents were excluded.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Minimum Data Set.

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 10_1_3-3: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/10_functional_status/T10_1_3-3.html