Where to enhance rural palliative care? Developing a spatial model to identify suitable communities most in need of service enhancement

Table 5 Summary of the SSM component scores and final SPCH SSM scores. Component scores are summed and divided by four to generate the final scores

SSM Scores for possible Ontario SPCH sites
Community Name	Population Score	Isolation Score	VulnerabilityScore	Community Readiness Score	SSM Score
Dryden	0.81	0.94	0.29	0.80	0.71
Elliot Lake	0.68	0.45	0.35	0.60	0.52
Fort Frances	1.00	0.93	0.30	0.80	0.76
Goderich	0.23	0.22	0.29	0.60	0.34
Haileybury	0.56	0.41	0.34	0.60	0.48
Hawkesbury	0.26	0.16	0.28	0.60	0.33
Kapuskasing	0.46	0.44	0.33	0.40	0.41
Kenora	0.87	0.56	0.29	0.80	0.63
Kincardine	0.25	0.27	0.30	0.80	0.41
Kirkland Lake	0.26	0.26	0.32	0.80	0.41
Parry Sound	0.21	0.25	0.30	1.00	0.44
Perth	0.19	0.22	0.27	0.80	0.37

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