Alabama
Ranking Highlights
| 2019 Rank | Change from Baseline | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall Ranking | 38 | -1 |
| Access and Affordability | 35 | -3 |
| Prevention and Treatment | 30 | +6 |
| Avoidable Hospital Use and Cost | 34 | -3 |
| Healthy Lives | 46 | -2 |
| Disparity | 36 | -10 |
| Medicaid Expansion | No |
Demographics
| Alabama | Average | |
|---|---|---|
| Total Population | 4,796,532 | 320,842,721 |
| Median Household Income | $50,559 | $65,727 |
| Below 200% of Federal Poverty Level (FPL) | 38% | 31% |
| % White Race, Non-Hispanic | 66% | 61% |
| % Black Race, Non-Hispanic | 27% | 12% |
| % Other Race, Non-Hispanic | 4% | 9% |
| % Hispanic Ethnicithy | 4% | 18% |
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Highlights
Top Ranked Indicators
- Adults with inappropriate lower back imaging
- Home health patients without improved mobility
- Hospital 30-day readmission rate ages 18-64
Bottom Ranked Indicators
- Preventable hospitalizations ages 18-64
- Central line-associated blood stream infection (CLABSI)
- Infant mortality
Most Improved Indicators
- Home health patients without improved mobility
- Central line-associated blood stream infection (CLABSI)
- Diabetic adults without an annual hemoglobin A1c test
Indicators That Worsened the Most
- Adults who are obese
- Preventable hospitalizations ages 18-64
- Hospital 30-day readmission rate ages 18-64
Comparison with the U.S. Average
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Estimated Gains Alabama Could Expect if Performance Improves to Match Top States
| Top State in the U.S. | Top State in the Southeast region | Gains for Alabama |
|---|---|---|
| 343,891 | 233,440 | more adults and children, beyond those who already gained coverage through the ACA, would be insured |
| 335,672 | 186,484 | fewer adults would skip needed care because of its cost |
| 176,534 | 88,267 | more adults would receive age- and gender-appropriate cancer screenings |
| 6,904 | 863 | more children (ages 19-35 months) would receive all recommended vaccines |
| 154,490 | 67,885 | fewer employer-insured adults and elderly Medicare beneficiaries would seek care in emergency departments for nonemergent or primary-care-treatable conditions |
| 2,515 | 1,364 | fewer premature deaths (before age 75) would occur from causes that are potentially treatable or preventable with timely and appropriate care |
Estimated impact if this state’s performance improved to the rate of two benchmark levels — a national benchmark set at the level of the best-performing state and a regional benchmark set at the level of the top-performing state in region (www.bea.gov: Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, New England, Plains, Rocky Mountains, Southeast, Southwest, West). Benchmark states have an estimated impact of zero (0).
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