By Melissa Cunningham
Oklahoma is next to last in
health-care with a ranking of 50 out of 51 (including the District of Columbia), according to the Commonwealth Fund. Ranking
indicators measured were 1) access and affordability, 2) prevention and
treatment, 3) avoidable hospital use and cost, 4) healthy lives, and 5) equity.
In comparison to neighboring states
Arkansas is ranked 49th, Kansas is ranked 28th, and Texas
is ranked 40th. The state with the worst heath-care ranking is
Mississippi and the top ranking state is Minnesota.
The major areas where there are
problems with heath-care in Oklahoma are access, affordability, and avoidable
hospital use and costs. However, Oklahoma ranks in the top five in one
indicator: home-health patients that are also enrolled in Medicare with
hospital admission.
The 2015 health-care ranking
results can be found at the Commonwealth Fund website.
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