Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Hale County, AL (DISCONTINUED)
Series ID:           DMPCRATE001065
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 2:13 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
2008-01-01 121.9599997997280
2009-01-01 114.9799997806550
2010-01-01  99.2500000000000
2011-01-01  83.2139999996871
2012-01-01  72.0589999994263
2013-01-01  82.0909999990836
2014-01-01  78.3079999992624
2015-01-01  72.2629999993369