The Minnesota Department of Health has released a report that lists where Cook County residents received hospital inpatient care in 2006. According to Cook County North Shore Hospital Administrator Diane Pearson, hospital statistics can be difficult to find because competing hospitals often do not want to release information that could benefit their competitors.
According to the Department of Health, Minnesota hospitals had 727 discharges of Cook County residents in 2006. North Shore Hospital had 44.9% of those discharges. St. Mary’s Medical Center had 25.9%, St. Luke’s Hospital had 15.6%, Miller-Dwan Medical Center had 4.9%, and other hospitals had 8.2%.
Minnesota Hospital Association statistics show that the average length of stay in a Minnesota hospital is 4.2 days, with an average cost per day of $2,493. On a national level, 30.8% of health care dollars are spent on hospitals, with an average of $7,092 spent per person on health care.
The ten most common reasons for hospital admission, representing 31% of total admissions, are delivery of babies and newborn care, psychoses, joint replacements or reattachment of lower extremities, heart failure and shock, pneumonia and pleurisy, esophagitis and gastrointestinal disorders, and chest pain.
In 2007, 73,675 people were born in Minnesota and 37,086 died. The leading causes of death were cancer (24.7%) and heart disease (20.4%). The next 19% of deaths were caused by cerebrovascular diseases (5.6%), accidents (5.6%), chronic lower respiratory diseases (4.7%), and Alzheimer’s (3.2%).
Volunteer activities in Minnesota’s hospitals were worth $18.4 million in 2007.
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