30-Day Readmissions for Heart Failure by Hospital 2015-18

This layer displays the rate of 30-day hospital readmissions for patients with an initial hospital admission for heart failure. Data are reported at the hospital level for the July 2015 – June 2018 three-year period. Data are obtained from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare dataset.

911 Service Areas

911 Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) service area boundaries in the United States According to the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) is a facility equipped and staffed to receive 9-1-1 calls. The service area is the geographic area within which a 911 call placed using a landline is answered at the associated PSAP. This dataset only includes primary PSAPs. Secondary PSAPs, backup PSAPs, and wireless PSAPs have been excluded from this dataset. Primary PSAPs receive calls directly, whereas secondary PSAPs receive calls that have been transferred by a primary PSAP. Backup PSAPs provide service in cases where another PSAP is inoperable. Most military bases have their own emergency telephone systems. For more information visit the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Data (HIFLD) website

Digital Divide Index

The Digital Divide Index or DDI ranges in value from 0 to 100, where 100 indicates the highest digital divide. It is composed of two scores, also ranging from 0 to 100: the infrastructure/adoption (INFA) score and
the socioeconomic (SE) score.

Student Loan Debt in Collections, 2018

This layer displays debt information at the state and county levels from the Urban Institute’s 2019 Debt in America interactive platform. Data includes medical debt, student loan debt, automobile debt, retail debt and any debt in collections based on December 2018 credit bureau records.

Credit Card Deliquency Rate

This layer displays debt information at the state and county levels provided by The Urban Institute. Data includes medical debt, student loan debt, automobile debt, retail debt and any debt in collections. Demographic information is from the 2016 Census.