Preventable Hospitalizations by County, 2017

This layer displays the total number and rate of preventable hospitalization events among Medicare beneficiaries. Preventable hospitalizations include hospital admissions for one or more of the following conditions: diabetes with short-term complications, diabetes with long-term complications, uncontrolled diabetes without complications, diabetes with lower-extremity amputation, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, hypertension, heart failure, bacterial pneumonia, or urinary tract infection. Rates are presented per 100,000 beneficiaries.

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Prescription Drug Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries

This layer displays the average number of 30-day prescription fills per Medicare beneficiary in 2010. Data is from the Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare Prescription Drug Use series, released in October 2013. For more layers from this series, browse the Map Room data and navigate to Healthcare>Clinical Care>Prescription Drugs.

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