Table 2.
Mean and standard deviation road distance estimates (in miles) to the nearest licensed hearing aid services and to potential teleaudiology expansion sites.
| Arizona County | Licensed hearing aid services
a
|
Potential teleaudiology expansion site |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community-Based Outpatient Clinic
b
|
Federally Qualified Health Center
c
|
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| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
| Apache | 118.90 | (36.97) | 39.59 | (17.66) | 69.86 | (28.01) |
| Cochise | 21.60 | (21.29) | 23.30 | (19.94) | 6.72 | (8.79) |
| Coconino | 17.34 | (23.09) | 13.65 | (20.17) | 14.99 | (19.97) |
| Gila | 8.86 | (9.32) | 11.79 | (9.88) | 10.41 | (9.61) |
| Graham | 6.83 | (7.89) | 7.11 | (8.89) | 6.58 | (8.00) |
| Greenlee | 41.56 | (4.13) | 42.55 | (2.80) | 5.72 | (2.77) |
| La Paz | 58.16 | (17.29) | 63.89 | (16.09) | 58.02 | (13.29) |
| Maricopa | 2.30 | (3.29) | 7.71 | (23.68) | 3.74 | (9.22) |
| Mohave | 7.68 | (13.16) | 27.09 | (47.02) | 10.48 | (18.44) |
| Navajo | 35.75 | (33.11) | 19.03 | (12.41) | 24.44 | (26.48) |
| Pima | 4.11 | (7.05) | 7.34 | (25.27) | 3.50 | (12.94) |
| Pinal | 7.89 | (7.68) | 17.48 | (12.67) | 5.28 | (10.24) |
| Santa Cruz | 6.75 | (5.82) | 33.59 | (7.76) | 3.46 | (4.99) |
| Yavapai | 8.05 | (11.38) | 13.68 | (17.61) | 10.47 | (15.44) |
| Yuma | 6.47 | (9.83) | 9.26 | (17.05) | 4.11 | (8.76) |
Note. Travel distances calculated for estimated population of individuals age ≥ 65 years with hearing loss in Arizona.
Audiologists and hearing instrument specialists who held active licenses to dispense hearing aids in Arizona as of June 17, 2017 (Arizona Department of Health Services, 2017b).
Community-Based Outpatient Clinics are health centers that serve as the providers of basic health services to Veterans who live far from a larger health center (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2018).
Federally Qualified Health Centers are health centers that operate in Health Professional Shortage Areas and are eligible to receive reimbursements under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for providing primary and preventative care to all individuals, regardless of ability to pay (Health Resources & Services Administration, 2018).