Louisiana has the highest rate of emergency room visits in the U.S., according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation ranking.
These figures have changed since first published April 5.
Kaiser Family Foundation analyzed data from the 1999-2019 American Hospital Association Annual Survey. The data include ER visits from community hospitals, which represent 85 percent of all hospitals in the U.S.
In 2019, the national ER visit rate was 437 per 1,000 population. Here's how each state and the District of Columbia stack up.
Note: The list includes ties, which results in a numerical listing of 44.
- Louisiana — 604
- Kentucky — 603
- District of Columbia — 593
- Ohio — 589
- West Virginia — 582
- Mississippi — 574
- Maine — 537
- New Hampshire — 524
- Arkansas — 516
- Vermont — 509
- Alabama — 508
- Indiana — 502
- Michigan — 500
- Rhode Island — 499
- Tennessee — 497
- Oklahoma — 492
- Delaware — 491
Massachusetts — 491 - Pennsylvania — 483
- Connecticut — 477
Missouri — 477
Nebraska — 477 - Florida — 474
- South Carolina — 468
- Alaska — 451
New York — 451 - Illinois — 444
- Georgia — 436
- Virginia — 425
- Montana — 424
North Carolina — 424 - Texas — 422
- New Mexico — 418
North Dakota — 418 - Iowa — 417
- Kansas — 411
- New Jersey — 409
- South Dakota — 407
- Wisconsin — 391
- Idaho — 386
Wyoming — 386 - Washington — 384
- Oregon — 373
- Colorado — 366
- Maryland — 365
- Minnesota — 360
- Hawaii — 351
- California — 331
- Arizona — 330
- Nevada — 310
- Utah — 269
Editor's note: This article was updated Sunday, April 11 at 12:00 p.m. CST.
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