NE states rank high on scorecard report but still have areas needing improvement

Massachusetts holds top spot
Massachusetts ranked first overall on The Commonwealth Fund’s “”Scorecard on State Health System Performance” report with New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Hawaii rounding out the top five.
Connecticut ranked sixth while Maine was 16th. The lowest performing states were Oklahoma, West Virginia, and Mississippi.
In its 12th year, The Commonwealth Fund’s rankings for health system performance are based on 58 measures of health care access, quality, use of services, costs, health disparities, reproductive care, women’s health care and women’s health, and health outcomes.
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