I have used County Health Rankings for years on this site to provide insight into the social ills plaguing the Allegheny mountains. Last year they lost their main funder, the Robert Wood Johnston Foundation. They are not doing major data releases now, but they update their site as new data is released. This post focusesContinue reading “Low Birth Weight Babies in PA”
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Non-Hispanic White Population Predict Trump’s Vote in PA
This is the last in the series of County Health Rankings and Trump’s Vote in PA. Accordingly, this post looks at the “Percentage of population identifying as non-Hispanic white. The 2025 Annual Data Release used data from 2023 for this measure.” The question is how does this predict Trump’s vote in Pennsylvania? Altogether the multipleContinue reading “Non-Hispanic White Population Predict Trump’s Vote in PA”
Census Participation and Trump’s Vote in PA
This is the sixth installment in my series on Trump’s vote in PA and County Health Rankings (CHR). This post focuses on Census participation at the county level. It is defined as “Percentage of all households that self-responded to the 2020 census (by internet, paper questionnaire or telephone).” This measures civic engagement. Census participation andContinue reading “Census Participation and Trump’s Vote in PA”
Pandemic Life Expectancies for Race in Pennsylvania
The 2025 County Health Rankings are out. Their current health model is in the video above. This may be the last time that the rankings are released. This is due to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s decision to discontinue funding. For this post, I will focus on pandemic life expectancies for race in the Alleghenies.Continue reading “Pandemic Life Expectancies for Race in Pennsylvania”
Preventable Hospital Stays Predict COVID of Mortality for Cambria and Somerset Counties
Digging deeper into the HRSA data for Cambria and Somerset Counties I thought I would look at predictors of mortality in the area. The graph above shows a strong positive correlation between preventable hospital stays and all cause mortality. This means that zip-codes with higher rates of preventable hospital stays have higher mortality rates. ThisContinue reading “Preventable Hospital Stays Predict COVID of Mortality for Cambria and Somerset Counties”
Social Factors and Pandemic African American Mortality in Cambria County
Group 2016-2018 2017-2019 2018-2020 2019-2021 Overall 75.8 76.1 75.8 74.9 White 76.2 76.4 76.1 75.3 AfricanAmerican 65.6 67.3 66.9 63.7 Life Expectancy by Race in Cambria County Two weeks ago I posted on the rise in mortality in the African American community in Cambria County during the pandemic. The table above shows the decline inContinue reading “Social Factors and Pandemic African American Mortality in Cambria County”
Racial Disparities in Clinical Care in Cambria County During the Pandemic
This is a follow up to the last post on pandemic disparities in racial mortality in Cambria County. Other trends in health outcomes and social variables are provided by County Health Rankings. There was too much trend information on race to fit into one post. For this post I will look at trends in CambriaContinue reading “Racial Disparities in Clinical Care in Cambria County During the Pandemic”
Racial Disparities in Cambria County Exasperated by Pandemic
Three weeks ago, I posted on mortality rates in the area increasing due to the Covid pandemic. This time I will look at pandemic racial disparities in Cambria County. The table below shows life expectancies for Cambria County for the years 2016-2018 to the years 2019-2021. These are 3 year moving averages in the table.Continue reading “Racial Disparities in Cambria County Exasperated by Pandemic”
Gretchen Morgenson on Private Equity Firms in Healthcare Like Conemaugh Medical Center
I recently had the opportunity to collaborate with Gretchen Morgenson of NBC News. In 2002, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of Wall Street. I assisted her on a piece she was doing on the influence of private equity firms on healthcare and housing. A private equity firm owns Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center.Continue reading “Gretchen Morgenson on Private Equity Firms in Healthcare Like Conemaugh Medical Center”
New County Health Rankings Show Impact of COVID Pandemic
Last week County Health Rankings came out with their 2024 rankings. The graph below shows mortality trends for Cambria County, Pennsylvania, and the U.S. The numbers for 2020 are an average for the years 2019-2021. Two out of the three years (2020 and 2021) are years at the height of the COVID pandemic. The rankingsContinue reading “New County Health Rankings Show Impact of COVID Pandemic”