Data Team Supervisor Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Research Objectives: To evaluate the changes in Georgia's hospital care service areas from 2010-2019 To evaluate the changes in Georgia's inpatient population from 2010-2019
Design: Used data from the Annual Hospital Questionnaire 2010-2019 to calculate total inpatients Used data from the US Census estimates to calculate changes in population Grouped Georgia counties according to where the majority of residents went for care Assessed which counties lost or did not have hospitals during the time period
Setting: Georgia state government healthcare workforce research
Participants: Used data collected from the mandatory Annual Hospital Questionnaire which surveys all hospitals in Georgia annually.
Interventions: No intervention used
Main Outcome Measures: Number of self-sufficient hospital care service areas
Results: Georgia's population has increased while the number of hospitals has decreased. The number of self-sufficient hospital care service areas has also decreased since 2010.
Conclusions: Georgia residents may have to travel farther, on average, for hospital care than they did in 2010. There are fewer hospitals in the state and the hospitals that do exist are having to serve wider geographic swathes of the state.
Author(s) Disclosures: Leanna Greenwood, GE Alan Dever. No disclosures
Learning Objectives:
Identify trends in Georgia's number of patients and hospitals since 2010.
Identify areas in Georgia that have lost hospitals since 2010.
Understand how Georgia's hospital care service areas have changed since 2010.
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