Table 13_1_3-3

2010 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 13_1_3.3
Adults who needed care right away for an illness, injury, or condition in the last 12 months who always got care as soon as wanted, Medicare fee for service, by State, 2007-2009
	2009		2008		2007
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Alabama	68.9	2.5	68.5	2.9	77.4	2.5
Alaska	68.1	3.8	61.3	3.9	67.7	3.6
Arizona	62.9	2.8	66.1	3.4	64.2	2.9
Arkansas	67.4	3.4	53.2	4.0	68.8	3.7
California	69.2	1.3	71.7	1.7	71.8	1.7
Colorado	71.9	3.0	66.9	4.3	75.9	3.4
Connecticut	79.9	2.5	73.2	3.9	72.0	3.7
Delaware	68.5	3.7	70.3	4.0	72.2	3.9
District of Columbia	73.6	3.7	73.3	4.1	66.2	4.1
Florida	68.0	1.3	65.3	1.8	70.7	1.8
Georgia	68.4	2.2	69.9	2.6	66.3	2.5
Hawaii	71.2	3.9	70.6	4.5	79.0	3.7
Idaho	65.2	3.8	80.3	3.4	68.3	3.9
Illinois	67.6	1.8	66.7	2.1	DNC	DNC
Indiana	72.1	2.4	68.8	2.7	73.5	2.5
Iowa	74.1	3.6	76.2	3.5	78.3	3.6
Kansas	66.4	3.6	74.0	3.6	75.4	3.8
Kentucky	67.2	2.7	66.5	3.1	71.4	2.8
Louisiana	71.7	2.9	64.3	3.6	70.8	3.1
Maine	76.7	3.5	72.5	3.7	74.8	3.6
Maryland	69.7	2.3	70.9	3.2	69.6	2.7
Massachusetts	70.7	2.3	70.6	2.8	73.0	2.5
Michigan	70.1	1.7	68.1	2.3	74.3	1.9
Minnesota	72.5	3.6	77.5	3.2	74.1	3.7
Mississippi	66.0	3.6	67.4	3.6	72.8	3.8
Missouri	68.9	2.4	66.2	2.9	67.8	2.8
Montana	64.9	3.7	69.4	3.6	74.8	3.9
Nebraska	78.6	3.3	72.5	3.7	75.2	4.0
Nevada	64.7	3.7	70.1	4.2	68.3	3.9
New Hampshire	68.0	3.7	71.7	3.7	75.9	3.7
New Jersey	71.5	1.9	69.5	2.6	68.9	2.4
New Mexico	62.4	3.9	63.9	4.6	65.1	3.9
New York	66.6	1.4	68.5	2.0	69.5	1.8
North Carolina	69.0	2.0	70.2	2.1	72.1	2.1
North Dakota	70.3	3.9	73.6	3.6	70.2	4.2
Ohio	69.5	1.8	68.1	2.2	70.4	2.0
Oklahoma	67.8	2.9	64.4	3.4	66.3	3.6
Oregon	73.3	3.6	74.4	3.8	64.2	4.3
Pennsylvania	73.4	1.7	70.6	2.2	73.5	2.0
Puerto Rico	66.8	3.1	63.0	4.6	73.6	3.3
Rhode Island	73.3	3.2	66.7	4.6	74.5	3.5
South Carolina	72.3	2.7	73.3	2.9	73.3	2.7
South Dakota	69.6	3.7	74.4	3.8	70.6	4.9
Tennessee	68.8	2.6	69.2	2.9	71.9	2.6
Texas	66.8	1.4	65.0	1.8	69.5	1.8
Utah	68.0	3.6	67.7	4.1	73.4	3.7
Vermont	76.2	3.4	74.5	3.7	74.8	3.9
Virgin Islands	62.0	3.9	55.7	5.0	63.5	4.1
Virginia	67.8	2.0	72.6	2.4	71.2	2.3
Washington	72.2	2.3	72.1	3.1	70.7	2.7
West Virginia	66.1	3.8	61.8	3.8	64.7	3.8
Wisconsin	73.3	2.5	78.6	2.8	72.3	2.6
Wyoming	66.2	3.9	71.3	3.6	74.7	3.5

DNC - Data were not collected.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, National CAHPS� Benchmarking Database.

Current as of February 2011

Internet Citation: Table 13_1_3-3: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. February 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/13_timeliness/T13_1_3-3.html