Achievement by Estimated Household Income, 2007

Figure 5 highlights the region’s overall achievement on our Summary Outcome and Summary Process Standards, stratified by estimated household income category. Each practice organization provided estimates of each patient’s household income using information from the 2000 U.S. Census. Patients are divided into three categories in relation to household incomes of all Cuyahoga County residents, with approximately one-third categorized into low (less than $35,000), middle (between $35,000 and $48,000), and high (more than $48,000) income categories. As above, horizontal lines represent the 38% region-wide overall achievement on the Summary Outcome Standard (left) and the 46% region-wide overall achievement on the Summary Process Standard (right).

Figure 5. Region-wide Achievement on Better Health’s Summary Standards, by Income Category. 2007

Results by income were similar to those described for insurance categories (Figure 3). Overall achievement on our Summary Outcome Standard varied considerably, ranging from 43% in the highest income category to 32% in the lowest income category. As with our results by insurance, however, there was only modest variation across income categories in the achievement of our Summary Process Standard.