Table 2.

Characteristics of the hospitalizations and hospitals of Medicare beneficiaries in the national 5% random sample with hospitalizations for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in 2007–2014

	N=4,605
Hospitalization characteristics
Intensive care unit stay	1713 (37.2%)
Length of stay, mean (SD)	7.3 (4.8)
Year of hospitalization
2007	344 (7.5%)
2008	622 (13.5%)
2009	641 (13.9%)
2010	584 (12.7%)
2011	567 (12.3%)
2012	554 (12.0%)
2013	621 (13.5%)
2014	672 (14.6%)
Hospital characteristics
Hospital ownership
Nonfederal government	411 (8.9%)
Not for profit	3629 (78.8%)
For profit	565 (12.3%)
Bed size
< 100	474 (10.3%)
100–199	1024 (22.2%)
200–299	817 (17.7%)
300–399	708 (15.4%)
400–499	465 (10.1%)
≥500	1117 (24.3%)
Geographic region
New England	364 (7.9%)
Middle Atlantic	284 (6.2%)
East North Central	428 (9.3%)
West North Central	686 (14.9%)
South Atlantic	864 (18.8%)
East South Central	335 (7.3%)
West South Central	725 (15.7%)
Mountain	389 (8.4%)
Pacific	530 (11.5%)
Urban/rural location
Metro	4027 (87.4%)
Micro	464 (10.1%)
Rural	114 (2.5%)
Teaching status	2432 (52.8%)
Presence of cardiac critical care unit	2658 (57.7%)
30-day HF readmission rate, mean (SD)	21.8 (1.7)
30-day HF mortality rate, mean (SD)	11.8 (1.6)
Hospital overall rating
1	150 (3.3%)
2	1050 (22.8%)
3	2028 (44%)
4	1192 (25.9%)
5	140 (3.0%)
Not Available	45 (1.0%)
Patient survey star rating
1	93 (2.0%)
2	735 (16.0%)
3	2679 (58.2%)
4	1037 (22.5%)
5	28 (0.6%)
Not Available	33 (0.7%)
Mortality national comparison
Above the national average	1246 (27.1%)
Same as the national average	2537 (55.1%)
Below the national average	771 (16.7%)
Not Available	51 (1.1%)

Abbreviations: HF: Heart failure