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Table 1.129
Percent of long-stay nursing home residents given influenza vaccination during the flu season, by State, 2006a
State 2006
Number of nursing homes Percentb Standard error
Total With scoreb
Total 15,880 14,073 86.0 0.1
Alabama 232 215 85.0 1.3
Alaska 15 5 94.0 1.0
Arizona 136 120 80.8 1.7
Arkansas 235 215 90.9 0.9
California 1,276 1,081 79.5 0.7
Colorado 209 182 87.1 0.9
Connecticut 244 237 84.7 1.0
Delaware 44 38 89.5 2.0
District of Columbia 20 17 80.7 5.3
Florida 682 622 75.4 0.9
Georgia 361 340 87.7 0.8
Hawaii 47 33 93.8 0.5
Idaho 79 61 84.6 2.3
Illinois 800 689 83.6 0.8
Indiana 515 446 86.0 0.7
Iowa 456 405 92.9 0.4
Kansas 351 292 91.0 0.6
Kentucky 292 248 89.3 0.9
Louisiana 290 254 83.7 1.1
Maine 113 91 88.9 0.9
Maryland 233 211 83.8 1.2
Massachusetts 452 405 86.5 0.7
Michigan 426 393 85.9 0.9
Minnesota 399 376 90.5 0.5
Mississippi 201 186 85.2 1.4
Missouri 520 460 87.2 0.7
Montana 95 66 90.7 0.9
Nebraska 225 184 90.9 0.9
Nevada 47 38 75.8 3.5
New Hampshire 82 74 90.9 0.9
New Jersey 364 326 89.2 0.7
New Mexico 73 61 83.1 2.2
New York 656 634 91.2 0.3
North Carolina 421 383 85.3 0.8
North Dakota 83 73 93.4 0.8
Ohio 957 849 82.3 0.7
Oklahoma 332 285 89.5 0.6
Oregon 138 122 76.7 1.5
Pennsylvania 715 641 85.5 0.6
Rhode Island 87 82 88.0 1.3
South Carolina 175 153 90.0 1.0
South Dakota 109 103 93.0 0.8
Tennessee 326 301 86.4 0.9
Texas 1,144 990 87.4 0.5
Utah 94 70 87.1 1.6
Vermont 40 34 91.9 1.0
Virginia 278 250 84.2 1.0
Washington 244 219 84.3 0.9
West Virginia 131 112 91.3 0.8
Wisconsin 397 368 92.1 0.4
Wyoming 39 33 93.8 0.7

a The 2006 data reflect care for the period 10/1/06 to 12/31/06.

b A facility had to have at least 30 residents in the denominator for a chronic care measure to be calculated; therefore, the number of facilities may vary for each measure reported in a State.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Minimum Data Set. Data were downloaded from http://www.medicare.gov/NHCompare/Home.asp. The 2006 data were downloaded in April 2007.

 

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