Herkimer County ranked 41st for health outcomes and 43rd for health factors of the 62 New York counties surveyed as part of a study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and conducted by the University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute.
The rankings place the county barely above the bottom third in terms of mortality and morbidity rates, and in the bottom third when it comes to such factors as health behaviors and clinical care.
Health behavior rankings are based on community statistics for tobacco use, diet and exercise, alcohol use and unsafe sex. Clinical care rankings are based on statistics for access to care and quality of care, and includes statistical measures of the number of uninsured adults, primary care providers, preventable hospital stays, diabetic screenings and hospice use.
While health outcomes and health factors are considered to be the two "biggest" rankings, Public Health Director Dr. Gregory O'Keefe said the biggest concern is a last place ranking for clinical care.
This ranking shows that 17 percent of Herkimer County's adults are uninsured, compared with 15 percent across New York, and that the county has 33 primary care providers, or a rate of 52 per 100,000 of population, which is below the state average of 148 doctors per 100,000 of population.
The ranking also shows that 12 percent of county residents utilize hospice, against an average of 21 percent across New York, and that the county had 100 Medicare hospitalizations per 1,000 Medicare enrollees, compared with 78 hospitalizations per 1,000 enrollees across the state. Read more here.
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