Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of hospitals participating in readmissions reduction program (n = 4382) and their hospital referral region (n = 306).
| Frequency | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Hospital ownership | ||
| Government | 1,017 | 23.21 |
| For-profit | 686 | 15.65 |
| Not-for-profit | 2,679 | 61.14 |
| Teaching status | ||
| Major | 231 | 5.27 |
| Minor | 1,441 | 32.88 |
| Non-teaching | 2,710 | 61.84 |
| Part of a system | ||
| No | 1,549 | 35.35 |
| Yes | 2,833 | 64.65 |
| Hospital size | ||
| Small | 2,221 | 50.68 |
| Medium | 1,713 | 39.09 |
| Large | 448 | 10.22 |
| Hospital location | ||
| Rural | 2,537 | 57.9 |
| Urban | 1,845 | 42.1 |
| Mean | Standard Deviation | |
| Heart Failure 30-day readmission rate | 60.46 | 26.59 |
| Pneumonia 30-day readmission rate | 42.98 | 19.43 |
| Hip Replacement Surgery 30-day readmission rate | 28.92 | 14.30 |
| Acute Myocardial Infarction 30-day readmission rate | 44.50 | 16.91 |
| Hospital Medicare percentage | 52.14 | 18.15 |
| Hospital Medicaid percentage | 19.80 | 14.46 |
| Hospital inpatient days per 1000 | 38.92 | 56.48 |
| Entropy index score | 0.77 | 0.27 |
| Unemployment rate | 5.02 | 1.10 |
| Median age | 39.30 | 2.95 |
| Percent with High School degree | 30.38 | 5.32 |
| Percent with some college education | 21.65 | 2.94 |
| Percent with associate degree | 8.47 | 1.79 |
| Percent with bachelors | 16.72 | 3.73 |
| Percent with graduate degree | 9.68 | 3.44 |