Florida leads with most hospital-acquired conditions in the nation

Recently, Medicare released information that everyone should find helpful to know when choosing a hospital - the count of specific hospital-acquired conditions by hospital. While statisticians may appreciate the amount per 1,000 discharges, I find it more important to understand how many times people in that specific community encountered a hospital-acquired condition.

After all, they are not supposed to be occurring at all.

The hospital-acquired conditions included are:

Air Embolism

Blood Incompatibility

Catheter-Associated UTI

Falls and Trauma

Foreign Object Retained After Surgery

Manifestation of Poor Glycemic Control

Pressure Ulcer (Sores) Stages III and IV and

Vascular Catheter-Associated Infection.

The following list is based on discharges October 1, 2008 through June 30, 2010, a 21 month period.

Rank	State	Count of Hospital Acquired Conditions
1	Florida	2115
2	New York	2035
3	Texas	2020
4	California	1983
5	Pennsylvania	1309
6	New Jersey	1111
7	Illinois	1096
8	Ohio	1014
9	North Carolina	953
10	Michigan	933
11	Georgia	839
12	Virginia	787
13	Tennessee	731
14	Missouri	687
15	Alabama	598
16	Massachusetts	586
17	Indiana	563
18	Wisconsin	545
19	Kentucky	510
20	Washington	488
21	South Carolina	474
22	Oklahoma	426
23	Arizona	417
24	Arkansas	403
25	Conneticut	391
26	Minnesota	386
27	Louisiana	379
28	Mississippi	356
29	Colorado	342
30	Kansas	302
31	West Virgina	246
32	Iowa	225
33	Nevada	203
34	Oregon	195
35	Nebraska	190
36	Maine	163
37	New Hampshire	156
38	New Mexico	132
39	Utah	124
40	Rhode Island	102
41	Delaware	100
42	South Dakota	86
43	Washington	80
44	Hawaii	76
45	Montana	69
46	North Dakota	69
47	Idaho	66
48	Vermont	45
49	Alaska	37
50	Wyoming	30

Does any of it surprise you? Would you like to see more information - like at the hospital level? Please share your thoughts.

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