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Hospice demographics from returned data
| Number of hospices |
Percentage of hospices responding |
|
|---|---|---|
| Hospice size (70.6% responding) | ||
| Small - 0–99 patients per year (ppy) | 30 | 25% |
| Mid-sized - 100–489 ppy | 59 | 49.2% |
| Large - ≥490 ppy | 31 | 25.8% |
| Locale of patients served (75.8% responding) | ||
| Urban | 18 | 14.0% |
| Rural | 59 | 45.7% |
| Mixed | 52 | 40.3 |
| Race/Ethnicity of patients served (56.7% responding) | ||
| White | 88% | |
| Hispanic | 5% | |
| Black | 5% | |
| Asian | 2% | |
