Table 10_1_7-3

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_7.3
Home health care patients who get better at bathing, by State, 2005 and 2008^a
	2008		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	62.2	0.1	60.1	0.1
Alabama	62.4	1.0	60.6	0.9
Alaska	58.6	2.9	61.5	3.1
Arizona	61.8	0.9	61.8	0.9
Arkansas	58.3	1.1	56.4	1.1
California	67.0	0.5	64.6	0.5
Colorado	61.9	0.9	60.7	0.9
Connecticut	59.8	0.9	57.6	0.9
Delaware	55.7	3.5	52.8	2.9
District of Columbia	59.6	5.5	51.8	4.1
Florida	63.1	0.5	60.8	0.5
Georgia	64.4	1.0	60.1	0.9
Hawaii	67.7	1.5	65.5	2.1
Idaho	62.1	1.1	59.4	1.3
Illinois	65.7	0.7	62.1	0.7
Indiana	60.5	0.8	58.4	0.9
Iowa	57.1	0.8	56.4	0.9
Kansas	61.8	1.3	59.5	1.2
Kentucky	60.1	0.7	56.1	0.9
Louisiana	62.2	0.8	58.6	0.9
Maine	63.7	1.5	56.2	1.6
Maryland	64.5	1.1	60.1	0.8
Massachusetts	62.3	1.0	56.5	0.9
Michigan	65.3	0.6	63.9	0.6
Minnesota	55.9	0.9	54.9	1.0
Mississippi	64.5	1.3	60.2	1.2
Missouri	62.3	0.8	58.1	0.7
Montana	62.1	1.7	60.5	1.2
Nebraska	62.6	1.6	58.0	1.8
Nevada	67.8	1.3	63.3	1.3
New Hampshire	60.4	1.8	59.4	1.1
New Jersey	64.3	0.8	60.3	0.9
New Mexico	65.2	1.1	67.4	1.2
New York	58.3	0.6	56.9	0.7
North Carolina	59.8	0.6	57.0	0.6
North Dakota	60.4	1.9	57.8	2.4
Ohio	56.7	0.7	55.1	0.6
Oklahoma	59.8	0.8	58.7	0.9
Oregon	63.2	0.7	62.6	0.9
Pennsylvania	62.4	0.6	59.9	0.7
Rhode Island	64.2	2.1	55.5	1.9
South Carolina	67.2	0.9	63.0	0.9
South Dakota	61.5	1.9	61.7	2.3
Tennessee	65.3	0.8	61.2	0.8
Texas	59.7	0.5	60.9	0.5
Utah	69.5	1.2	67.8	1.1
Vermont	60.3	1.7	60.6	1.7
Virginia	61.2	0.9	59.7	0.8
Washington	62.3	0.8	62.5	0.8
West Virginia	61.4	0.9	56.2	1.3
Wisconsin	57.1	1.2	54.6	1.0
Wyoming	59.6	1.7	62.4	1.9

^a Data were downloaded from http://www.medicare.gov/Download/DownloadDB.asp in March-April and reflect care delivered mainly in the previous year.

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 10_1_7-3: 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_7-3.html