California
Ranking Highlights
| 2019 Rank | Change from Baseline | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall Ranking | 14 | +12 |
| Access and Affordability | 22 | +12 |
| Prevention and Treatment | 35 | +6 |
| Avoidable Hospital Use and Cost | 14 | -2 |
| Healthy Lives | 5 | +2 |
| Disparity | 4 | +27 |
| Medicaid Expansion | Yes |
Demographics
| California | Average | |
|---|---|---|
| Total Population | 39,052,156 | 320,842,721 |
| Median Household Income | $76,850 | $65,727 |
| Below 200% of Federal Poverty Level (FPL) | 31% | 31% |
| % White Race, Non-Hispanic | 37% | 61% |
| % Black Race, Non-Hispanic | 5% | 12% |
| % Other Race, Non-Hispanic | 19% | 9% |
| % Hispanic Ethnicithy | 39% | 18% |
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Highlights
Top Ranked Indicators
- Home health patients with a hospital admission
- Adults who have lost six or more teeth
- Adults who smoke
Bottom Ranked Indicators
- Children without a medical home
- Adults with any mental illness who did not receive treatment
- Children without all recommended vaccines
Most Improved Indicators
- Uninsured adults
- Uninsured children
- Home health patients without improved mobility
Indicators That Worsened the Most
- Children who did not receive needed mental health care
- Hospital 30-day readmission rate ages 18-64
- Preventable hospitalizations ages 18-64
Comparison with the U.S. Average
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Estimated Gains California Could Expect if Performance Improves to Match Top States
| Top State in the U.S. | Top State in the West region | Gains for California |
|---|---|---|
| 1,640,567 | 1,303,386 | more adults and children, beyond those who already gained coverage through the ACA, would be insured |
| 1,208,988 | 1,208,988 | fewer adults would skip needed care because of its cost |
| 690,180 | 345,090 | more adults would receive age- and gender-appropriate cancer screenings |
| 144,969 | 79,733 | more children (ages 19-35 months) would receive all recommended vaccines |
| 121,761 | 77,431 | fewer employer-insured adults and elderly Medicare beneficiaries would seek care in emergency departments for nonemergent or primary-care-treatable conditions |
| 5,990 | 3,125 | 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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