Ohio Health Care Quality Rankings

Room for Improvement: Where Does Ohio’s Health Care Quality Rank? features Ohio-specific results from the Commonwealth Fund’s State Scorecard on Health System Performance. The scorecard evaluates state health care system performance across five dimensions: access, quality, avoidable hospital use and costs, equity, and healthy lives. Overall, Ohio ranked 24th in the nation in terms of health care quality. In the specific health quality areas studied, Ohio ranked among the best of all states in having the smallest percent of adults needing to see a doctor but could not because of cost (12th of all states), highest percent of children ages 19–35 months receiving all recommended doses of five key vaccines (12th), and highest percent of adults with a usual source of care (11th). Ohio ranked among the worst states in terms of Medicare hospital admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (42nd of all states) and breast cancer deaths (47th).