Figure 1.

Patients transferred to a tertiary care neurosurgery service were from various originating hospitals. Illustration shows approximate patient number and geographical distribution of originating hospitals across the state of Alabama (in white), eastern Mississippi, western Georgia, and northwest Florida. The red star represents the tertiary care neurosurgery service at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and grey circles represent each area’s originating hospitals, with the approximate number of patients reflected by increasing circle diameters (see legend).