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Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Westmoreland County, PA (DISCONTINUED)
Series ID:           DMPCRATE042129
Source:              Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare
Release:             Preventable Hospital Admissions (Not a Press Release)
Seasonal Adjustment: Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency:           Annual
Units:               Rate
Date Range:          2008-01-01 to 2015-01-01
Last Updated:        2018-07-03 2:11 PM CDT
Notes:               The Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare calculates preventable hospital
                     admissions by considering the discharges for ambulatory care-sensitive
                     conditions from short-stay acute care hospitals per 1,000 medicare
                     enrollees. This is measured as a 5-year average and is adjusted for
                     age, sex, and race.
                     
                     For more information, see Regional and Racial Variation in Primary
                     Care and the Quality of Care among Medicare Beneficiaries (2010)
                     (https://www.dartmouthatlas.org/downloads/reports/Primary_care_report_090910.pdf).

DATE                   VALUE
2008-01-01  89.9699997901917
2009-01-01  86.4299998283386
2010-01-01  84.6199998855591
2011-01-01  85.6799999997020
2012-01-01  72.4019999997690
2013-01-01  68.8289999999106
2014-01-01  61.1749999998137
2015-01-01  64.3889999995008