Motion Chart of State Medians of Financial Performance Indicators
As part of ongoing work of the Flex Monitoring Team, quality and financial indicators of Critical Access Hospital performance are being analyzed by the Flex Monitoring Team. Here, state level data on financial performance of Critical Access Hospitals in each state can be viewed in "motion charts".
More information on data and how to use the chart
Data Source
The data below are pulled from the CAH Financial Indicator Reports produced by the Flex Monitoring Team. See
FMT Briefing Paper Number 7 for more details.
More data are available
here.
How to use the chart
The chart is highly customizable. The default view plots state median cash flow margin (y-axis) against state median total margin (x-axis). The size of the "bubble" is proprotional to the number of CAHs used in creating the median.
Actions you may take:
- Click the play button to see how the medians vary over time.
- Click the "cash flow margin" and/or "total margin" boxes by the axes to change the variable to another of the indicators.
- Click the "size" button to change the size of the bubbles -- eg make them all the same size, or make the size proportional to another variable (e.g. Acute Average Daily Census).
- Click either of the "Lin" (short for "linear") buttons to change the scale to logarithmic format (useful for indicators with skewed values).
- Click the color box to have the colors driven by another variable.
- Drag the button on the timescale to see a particular year.
- Click the trails button to see how a value changes over time.
- Hover and/or click on a bubble to track one state.
- Click on the bar graph picture to change the graph to a bar graph. (Many of the options above apply to that graph as well.)
