California
Ranking Highlights
| 2020 Rank | Change from Baseline | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall Ranking | 19 | +4 |
| Access and Affordability | 20 | +12 |
| Prevention and Treatment | 44 | -16 |
| Avoidable Hospital Use and Cost | 21 | -11 |
| Healthy Lives | 6 | +2 |
| Disparity | 19 | +6 |
| Medicaid Expansion (as of Jan. 2018) | Yes |
Demographics
| California | Average | |
|---|---|---|
| Total Population | 39,067,931 | 322,324,172 |
| Median Household Income | $81,048 | $67,877 |
| Below 200% of Federal Poverty Level (FPL) | 30% | 30% |
| % White Race, Non-Hispanic | 37% | 60% |
| % Black Race, Non-Hispanic | 5% | 12% |
| % Other Race, Non-Hispanic | 19% | 9% |
| % Hispanic Ethnicity | 39% | 18% |
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Highlights
Top Ranked Indicators
- Home health patients with a hospital admission
- Nursing home residents with an antipsychotic medication
- Adults who smoke
Bottom Ranked Indicators
- Children without a medical and dental preventive care visit
- Children who did not receive needed mental health care
- Adults with any mental illness who did not receive treatment
Most Improved Indicators
- Home health patients without improved mobility
- Nursing home residents with an antipsychotic medication
- Uninsured adults
Indicators That Worsened the Most
- Adults with any mental illness reporting unmet need
- Preventable hospitalizations ages 18–64
- Children who did not receive needed mental health care
Comparison with the U.S. Average
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Estimated Gains California Could Expect if Performance Improves to Match Top States
| Top State in the U.S. | Top State in the West region | Gains for California |
|---|---|---|
| 1,629,473 | 959,646 | more adults and children would be insured |
| 1,504,930 | 1,504,930 | fewer adults would skip needed care because of its cost |
| 864,681 | 691,745 | more adults would receive age- and gender-appropriate cancer screenings |
| 85,488 | 0 | more children (ages 19–35 months) would receive all recommended vaccines |
| 361,202 | 361,202 | fewer employer-insured adults and elderly Medicare beneficiaries would seek care in emergency departments for nonemergent or primary-care-treatable conditions |
| 6,179 | 2,960 | fewer premature deaths (before age 75) would occur from causes that are potentially treatable or preventable with timely and appropriate care |
Estimated impact if this state’s performance improved to the rate of two benchmark levels — a national benchmark set at the level of the best-performing state and a regional benchmark set at the level of the top-performing state in region (www.bea.gov: Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, New England, Plains, Rocky Mountains, Southeast, Southwest, West). Benchmark states have an estimated impact of zero (0).
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