AHRQ Annual Portrait of Health Care Quality - State-By-State

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s 2008 state data provide information about health care quality, including strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for improvement.

Snaphots summarize health care quality in three dimensions: type of care (preventive, acute and chronic care), setting of care (hospitals, ambulatory, nursing homes and home health care) and by clinical areas (cancer, diabetes, heart disease, maternal and child health and respiratory disease).

“The State Snapshots are an invaluable resource for state officials, health care providers and purchasers to help them better understand the extent of health care quality and disparities in their states,” said AHRQ Director Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D. “With this information, they can take the necessary steps to improve health care quality and address persistent gaps in access to health care.”

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is also releasing state-by-state reports on the health care status quo. The reports are available at www.HealthReform.gov.


See how Wisconsin measures up!

http://statesnapshots.ahrq.gov/snaps08/index.jsp