Posted on March 11, 2010.
Wisconsin ranks 10th in the nation for the performance of the health care system, judging by the Commonwealth Fund Commission on Health System Performance High When it comes to health care, Wisconsin is one of the best places to live in the country, according to a new report released today.
Wisconsin ranks 10th in the nation for the performance of the health care system, judging by the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health
When it comes to health care in Wisconsin is one of the best places to live in the country, according to a new report released today.
The report of the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health shows that Wisconsin ranks 10th among all states and the District of Columbia in the performance of the health system. It is a notch above classification of the state in 2007, the group scoreboard first state.
But if the State has improved its performance at the best state level - Vermont tops the list - it would save nearly $ 27 million hospital readmissions of Medicare patients, and there would be 163,650 more adults with insurance.
The Commonwealth Fund is a private research foundation advocating for improved national health system. In addition to the assessment of the state, he also publishes a national panel. The 2008 report gave the nation a failing grade.
The panel was based on 2009 State performance of health systems in the state on 38 indicators covering five categories: access, prevention and treatment, use and avoidable hospital costs, equity and a healthy lifestyle.
The results show great disparity between states and little movement to reduce the gaps that existed in 2007, particularly in access and quality of care.
"When you saw issues in terms of access, quality of care you receive ... and it should not," said Cathy Schoen, a president of Commonwealth Fund vice president and co-author of the report, entitled "Aiming Higher: Results from the dashboard 2009 State of health system performance. "
Of the 38 health indicators ordered by the state, Wisconsin has scored among the top five on five criteria, the first quarter, 15 in the second quarter 17, the third quartile and the bottom four on two.
highest odds of Wisconsin came in healthy living, which includes deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. In this category, the state rose to eighth place of 21 in 2007. In the attack, which includes the number of insured, Wisconsin, finished ninth, best compared to 13 two years ago.
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The state has dropped to 13th place from ninth to the prevention and treatment category, and 16 of 14 in-service hospital and avoidable costs.
Joel Cantor, director of the State Centre for Health Policy and Professor of Public Policy at Rutgers University, said drop of Wisconsin, for the most part been largely due to improvements in some other states areas, not necessarily because the performance has declined in Wisconsin.
For example, in Wisconsin actually showed an improvement in the percentage of patients with heart failure given written instructions to the exit, 76 percent in 2009 compared to 61 percent in 2007, but its ranking in this category decreased to 23 the ninth.
"This is an area where there has been an improvement to the national scale," Cantor said, "and Wisconsin simply does not improve much."
The dashboard is that Congress is engaged in an intense debate on legislation to provide health care coverage to most if not all 47 million uninsured Americans and slow cost increases.
Although access to health care for children has improved, the researchers found, it decreased for adults. The researchers attribute the increase in coverage for children in the State Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan, a federal initiative.
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