West Virginia
Ranking Highlights
| 2020 Rank | Change from Baseline | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall Ranking | 47 | +2 |
| Access and Affordability | 33 | +1 |
| Prevention and Treatment | 25 | +8 |
| Avoidable Hospital Use and Cost | 51 | -2 |
| Healthy Lives | 51 | 0 |
| Disparity | 27 | +19 |
| Medicaid Expansion (as of Jan. 2018) | Yes |
Demographics
| West Virginia | Average | |
|---|---|---|
| Total Population | 1,776,834 | 322,324,172 |
| Median Household Income | $48,629 | $67,877 |
| Below 200% of Federal Poverty Level (FPL) | 38% | 30% |
| % White Race, Non-Hispanic | 92% | 60% |
| % Black Race, Non-Hispanic | 4% | 12% |
| % Other Race, Non-Hispanic | 3% | 9% |
| % Hispanic Ethnicity | 1% | 18% |
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Highlights
Top Ranked Indicators
- Adults without all recommended vaccines
- Home health patients without improved mobility
- Uninsured children
Bottom Ranked Indicators
- Colorectal cancer deaths
- Drug poisoning deaths
- Adults who have lost six or more teeth
Most Improved Indicators
- Home health patients without improved mobility
- Children without all recommended vaccines
- Diabetic adults without an annual hemoglobin A1c test
Indicators That Worsened the Most
- Hospital 30-day mortality
- Preventable hospitalizations ages 18–64
- Drug poisoning deaths
Comparison with the U.S. Average
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Estimated Gains West Virginia Could Expect if Performance Improves to Match Top States
| Top State in the U.S. | Top State in the Southeast region | Gains for West Virginia |
|---|---|---|
| 59,599 | 10,372 | more adults and children would be insured |
| 113,148 | 28,287 | fewer adults would skip needed care because of its cost |
| 85,378 | 42,689 | more adults would receive age- and gender-appropriate cancer screenings |
| 3,415 | 2,562 | more children (ages 19–35 months) would receive all recommended vaccines |
| 84,080 | 48,297 | fewer employer-insured adults and elderly Medicare beneficiaries would seek care in emergency departments for nonemergent or primary-care-treatable conditions |
| 900 | 473 | 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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