Summary
From their website, "The Chicago Health & Health Systems Project monitors and analyzes Chicago’s health care system. The Health Systems Project collects health care resource data from ambulatory primary health care centers and hospitals and uses these data to create comprehensive profiles for each of Chicago’s 77 community areas. These Community Health Profiles include community-specific demographic information, maternal and child health indices, hospital discharge diagnoses, as well as health care resource capacity and utilization data. The Health Systems Project also produces individual Hospital Profiles, which provide information on various measures, including: the number of beds, admissions, average length of stay (ALOS), occupancy rate, etc."

Author or Organization
Chicago Department of Public Health

Geographic Area Covered and Level of Analysis
Aggregate data for each of the 77 community areas.

Year(s)
Updated as of 2006 for community data and 2003 and 2001 for hospital data.

Sample Size, Design, and Methodology
Data for Chicago hospitals is collected from ten different data sources, described in detail on their website. The sample size is the 77 community areas and 50 Chicago-area hospitals.

Variables Covered
Community Variables
- Census statistics, including gender, race/ethnicity, age, and socio-economic status
- Maternal and child health
- Community risk for certain indicators measured on BRFSS
- Leading causes of death and hospitalization
- Hospitalizations due to ambulatory care sensitive conditions
- Health care resources
- Where residents of the community area seek treatment

Hospital Profile Variables
2003 – Ranking based on admissions, live births, surgeries, and percentage of payees using Medicaid and Medicare, beds, patients served, procedures performed, payment sources
2001 – Beds, patients served, top ten diagnoses, sources of admission, personnel

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External Links
Chicago Health and Health Systems Project homepage