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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 />

173

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