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Profile Contents
Note:
Definitions of the profile terms can be found in the
Glossary of Terms/Definitions of Measures.
Community
Health Profiles
Organized by community
area, the Community Health Profiles contain a mix of health status,
risk assessment and health resource data. Each of the 77 profiles presents
information for the specific community, and in some instances, comparable
information for the city as a whole.
Health care
facilities maps depict the locations of community health centers,
publicly operated health centers, school-based health centers, and hospitals
and their freestanding affiliates.
Census statistics
include population by gender, race and ethnicity and poverty level.
Maternal
and Child Health indicators, often seen as a marker for the
overall health of a community, include the number of births, number
of births to teenagers, the number of births to women who received no
prenatal care, the number of low-birth weight infants and the infant
mortality rate.
Estimated
Community Risk for Selected Behavioral
Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS) Indicators is a
methodology for ranking Chicago communities with respect to the entire
city of Chicago, according to their demographic risk for various health
outcomes/behaviors, when direct community-level data are unavailable.
The methodology was developed out of the need for community-level health
estimates from a local population-based data source that was not community
specific. This approach uniquely combines results from Chicago BRFSS
data and Chicago Census 2000 data. By projecting the BRFSS results on
to community census data for Chicago, community risk can be estimated
for a variety of health behaviors and outcomes relative to other community
areas and the city in its entirety.
Leading
Causes of Death are presented for the community and Chicago
overall. Both the number of deaths and rates are presented. The causes
of death are listed in decreasing order, based on Chicago deaths.
Leading
Causes of Hospitalizations presents an estimate of the annual
number, percent of hospitalizations and age-adjusted rates of hospitalization
for both community area residents and Chicago. Newborns are excluded.
The causes of hospitalization are listed in decreasing order, based
on the number of community area resident hospitalizations (See Special
Notes for detailed methodology).
Hospitalizations
for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions. The estimated annual
number, percent and age-adjusted rate of hospitalizations due to ambulatory
care sensitive conditions are presented for both the community area
and Chicago. The causes of these hospitalizations are listed in decreasing
order, based on the number of community area resident hospitalizations.
Some of the measures are limited to either pediatric or adult populations,
and noted accordingly (See Special
Notes for detailed methodology).
Health Care
Resources, as reflected on the health care facilities map,
are identified by complete name, parent organization, and address.
Estimated
Primary Care Capacity and Utilization data are presented for
those ambulatory care sites (excluding hospitals) that were operational
and made data available.
Hospital
Capacity and Utilization data are presented for the hospitals
located within the profiled community. Indicators include: the numbers
of beds licensed and set-up and staffed, the number of inpatient admissions,
outpatient visits to the hospital, excluding those to freestanding hospital-affiliated
health centers, and emergency room visits.
Where residents
receive hospital care is depicted graphically in a pie chart that shows
the leading hospitals used for inpatient care by community area residents.
The denominator for these calculations is the annual number of hospitalizations
by community area residents. The numbers are estimates based on a conversion
from ZIP codes to community areas.
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Hospital
Profiles
Each one-page hospital
profile includes a series of tables that describe the hospital’s
capacity, utilization, and patient population. A brief description of
each table follows:
Number of
Beds by Type reports the number of beds licensed by the Illinois
Department of Public Health for that facility by type of unit, such
as Medical Surgical, and the number of Set Up & Staffed beds, a
measure of the actual capacity of the hospital. This table also lists
the number of operating rooms and whether or not the hospital has a
licensed trauma center.
Beds Set
Up & Staffed and Average Daily Census reports on trends
in hospital occupancy, as seen in the average number of patients per
day over a four-year period. The average daily census is calculated
by dividing the total inpatient days by 365.
Patients
by Payor Source presents the number and percent of discharges
by the party responsible for hospital payment. Data are presented for
two consecutive years.
Source of
Admissions reports the number and percent of discharges based
on where the admission originated, such as a referral from a doctor
or through the Emergency Room.
Utilization
numbers are reported for seven standard indicators of hospital inpatient
and outpatient utilization, including deliveries and emergency room.
Numbers are presented for two consecutive years, along with the percent
change for each indicator.
Top 10 Patient
Diagnoses reports annual hospital discharges for the most common
primary diagnosis. A detailed definition
of the hospitalization codes is included in the Glossary of Terms
and Definitions of Measures.
Market
Share and Patient Origin reports the discharges from
the top 10 ZIP codes for each hospital and the percent of patients from
the ZIP code that went to a particular hospital . Patient origin data
indicate the extent to which all hospital patients are distributed across
individual ZIP codes (e.g., 10% of Hospital X’s patients live in 60613).
Market share data tell us what proportion of those residents sought
care at the profiled hospital (e.g., 15% of all 60613 residents who
were hospitalized last year were seen at Hospital X).
Personnel reports
the number of full-time and part-time employed hospital personnel by
type.
Data
Sources | Profile Contents
| Identification of Facilities Included
in the Profiles |
Glossary of Terms/Definitions of Measures
| Challenges | Special
Notes
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