Table 1 Descriptive Statistics

Hospitals with over 400 beds (%)

32.97

Teaching hospital (%)

35.47

Age (years)

76.87

7.813

Male (%)

44.18

White (%)

63.30

African American (%)

32.25

Married (%)

44.85

Income ($)

$70,103.46

$25,408.93

Urban Neighborhood over 1 m people (%)

60.41

Smoking (%)

14.69

Asthma (%)

16.00

Tuberculosis (%)

8.35

Depression (%)

10.22

Obesity (%)

25.37

Environmental Hazards (%)

0.33

Medicare Fee-for-Service (%)

86.92

Medicare Managed Care (%)

6.29

Private Fee-for-Service (%)

4.43

Private Managed Care (%)

2.37

Length of Stay (LOS) days

4.45

4.183

End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) (%)

5.09

30-day Readmission (%)

15.71