National Healthcare Disparities Report - LDI Health Economist
National Healthcare Disparities Report - LDI Health Economist
National Healthcare Disparities Report - LDI Health Economist
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Patient Centeredness<br />
Figure 5.6. California and New Jersey hospitals with a high number of patients for whom English was<br />
not their primary language, by ownership, teaching status, occupancy load, and geographic location,<br />
2009<br />
100<br />
High Numbers of Non-English Speakers<br />
Low Numbers of Non-English Speakers<br />
90<br />
Percent<br />
80<br />
70<br />
60<br />
50<br />
40<br />
30<br />
20<br />
10<br />
0<br />
Private, For Profit<br />
Private, Not For Profit<br />
Public<br />
Teaching<br />
Nonteaching<br />
High Occupancy<br />
Medium Occupancy<br />
Low Occupancy<br />
Large Metro<br />
Small Metro<br />
Micropolitan<br />
Noncore<br />
Source: Agency for <strong><strong>Health</strong>care</strong> Research and Quality,<br />
<strong><strong>Health</strong>care</strong> Cost and Utilization Project, State<br />
Inpatient Databases.<br />
Note: Data are from 42 hospitals and 229,394<br />
discharges. High-percentage Spanish hospitals<br />
represent the top 10% of facilities with the highest<br />
percentages of patients for whom English is not their<br />
primary language. California and New Jersey only.<br />
Chapter 5<br />
n Only 7% of privately owned, for-profit hospitals were in the group with a high percentage of non-<br />
English-speaking patients (top 10%), whereas 9% of private, not-for-profit hospitals had a high<br />
percentage of non-English-speaking patients (Figure 5.6). About 16% of public hospitals had a high<br />
percentage of non-English-speaking patients.<br />
n Almost a quarter (23%) of teaching hospitals had a high percentage of non-English-speaking<br />
patients, but only 6% of non-teaching hospitals had a high percentage of non-English-speaking<br />
patients.<br />
n Based on occupancy rates, 18% of high-occupancy hospitals had a high percentage of non-Englishspeaking<br />
patients. Only 8% of medium-occupancy hospitals had a high percentage of non-Englishspeaking<br />
patients, and just 3% of low-occupancy hospitals had a high percentage of non-Englishspeaking<br />
patients.<br />
n Geographic location also seems to be associated with the percentage of hospitals that have a large<br />
percentage of patients whose primary language is not English. Thirteen percent of large metropolitan<br />
hospitals had a high percentage of non-English-speaking patients, and only 4% of small metropolitan<br />
hospitals had a high percentage of non-English-speaking patients. No micropolitan or noncore<br />
hospitals had a high percentage of non-English-speaking patients.<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong><strong>Health</strong>care</strong> Quality <strong>Report</strong>, 2011<br />
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