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Table 2 PAC capacity and referral rate across census divisions

From: Post-acute care referral in United States of America: a multiregional study of factors associated with referral destination in a cohort of patients with coronary artery bypass graft or valve replacement

Census Divisions

Number of PAC Facilities (Percentage within Division)

Referral Percentage within Division

HHC

SNF

IRF

LTCH

HHC

SNF

IRF

LTCH

Home

East North Central

2486 (42.40)

3081 (52.55)

227 (3.87)

69 (1.18)

31.20

14.30

12.20

1.00

41.30

East South Central

443 (27.65)

1043 (65.11)

82 (5.12)

34 (2.12)

13.40

5.70

9.40

1.60

69.90

Middle Atlantic

619 (24.78)

1691 (67.69)

158 (6.33)

30 (1.20)

68.30

16.00

4.50

0.50

10.70

Mountain

765 (45.29)

794 (47.01)

99 (5.86)

31 (1.84)

2.50

17.30

1.90

0.30

78.00

New England

442 (30.84)

937 (65.39)

35 (2.44)

19 (1.33)

43.60

20.10

11.20

1.10

24.00

Pacific

1464 (45.26)

1630 (50.39)

117 (3.62)

24 (0.74)

27.30

21.20

0.00

1.20

50.30

South Atlantic

1842 (41.37)

2367 (53.17)

176 (3.95)

67 (1.50)

21.00

9.10

9.90

1.30

58.70

West North Central

770 (25.81)

2080 (69.73)

106 (3.55)

27 (0.91)

31.20

20.40

1.70

1.00

45.70

West South Central

3173 (57.1)

2026 (36.46)

232 (4.17)

126 (2.27)

45.80

5.10

9.70

1.80

37.60

Mean

37.83

56.39

4.32

1.45

31.59

14.36

6.72

1.09

46.24

  1. Source: Capacities from Medicare, https://www.medicare.gov/; Referral rates from study data set taken from Cerner Health Facts Data Warehouse, https://business.okstate.edu/chsi/