Thursday, April 07, 2016

Oklahoma Heath Care Ranking


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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