Virginia
Ranking Highlights
| 2020 Rank | Change from Baseline | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall Ranking | 25 | +3 |
| Access and Affordability | 26 | 0 |
| Prevention and Treatment | 8 | +7 |
| Avoidable Hospital Use and Cost | 19 | +6 |
| Healthy Lives | 18 | +3 |
| Disparity | 45 | -12 |
| Medicaid Expansion (as of Jan. 2018) | No |
Demographics
| Virginia | Average | |
|---|---|---|
| Total Population | 8,300,331 | 322,324,172 |
| Median Household Income | $78,008 | $67,877 |
| Below 200% of Federal Poverty Level (FPL) | 25% | 30% |
| % White Race, Non-Hispanic | 61% | 60% |
| % Black Race, Non-Hispanic | 19% | 12% |
| % Other Race, Non-Hispanic | 10% | 9% |
| % Hispanic Ethnicity | 10% | 18% |
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Highlights
Top Ranked Indicators
- Children without a medical and dental preventive care visit
- Children without a medical home
- Adults without a dental visit
Bottom Ranked Indicators
- Employee insurance costs as a share of median income
- Breast cancer deaths
- Adults with any mental illness reporting unmet need
Most Improved Indicators
- Home health patients without improved mobility
- Adults who smoke
- Central line-associated blood stream infection (CLABSI)
Indicators That Worsened the Most
- Children who are overweight or obese
- Preventable hospitalizations ages 18–64
- Adults with any mental illness reporting unmet need
Comparison with the U.S. Average
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Estimated Gains Virginia Could Expect if Performance Improves to Match Top States
| Top State in the U.S. | Top State in the Southeast region | Gains for Virginia |
|---|---|---|
| 480,783 | 240,392 | more adults and children would be insured |
| 386,150 | 0 | fewer adults would skip needed care because of its cost |
| 190,826 | 0 | more adults would receive age- and gender-appropriate cancer screenings |
| 8,830 | 4,415 | more children (ages 19–35 months) would receive all recommended vaccines |
| 268,892 | 97,323 | fewer employer-insured adults and elderly Medicare beneficiaries would seek care in emergency departments for nonemergent or primary-care-treatable conditions |
| 2,022 | 0 | 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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