Rankings: Health Care Expenses, Hotels, Car Insurance Expenses – Delaware Business Now

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The most recent US News & World Report “Best States Rankings” continued to show positive news with Delaware ranking near the top in hospital quality.

Delaware was ranked second in the nation, according to US News and World Report.

“Delaware hospitals are dedicated to providing the highest quality care to every Delaware resident, and it shows,” said Wayne A. Smith, CEO of the Delaware Healthcare Association. “The delivery of quality health care is always first and foremost for Delaware’s hospitals and health care delivery systems. They invest, practice and assess quality. Quality improvement is a never-ending mission, and we are incredibly proud of Delaware hospitals and recognition for their efforts to provide quality patient care that every Delawarean benefits from.
Delaware scored high against other states in the following categories:

The ranking was based on treatment for nine procedures and conditions: abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, aortic valve surgery, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, colon cancer surgery, congestive heart failure, heart bypass surgery, hip replacement, knee replacement and lung cancer surgery.

State eight highest in health care costs

Cost is an issue when it comes to hospitals and health care in general.

Forbes Advisor analyzed 11 key metrics using data from the Kaiser Family Foundation and found that Delaware ranks 8th among the most expensive states for health care.

The ranking comes as no surprise, given the state’s history of high health care costs.

Factors that have been mentioned include a lack of competition among health care providers to a high incidence of chronic disease.

South Dakota tops the list of states with the most expensive health care, while Michigan is the least expensive.

To see the full report here

Delaware insurance rates come with a high cost per mile

It’s no secret that Delaware has some of the highest car insurance races, even beating New Jersey, which had one of the highest rates in the country until reforms were made. to the system.

This Finance Buzz ranking is a little different from other car insurance rankings, since it calculates the cost per kilometer of insurance.

Delaware is essentially tied to California and Louisiana, with the cost of insurance being 16 cents per mile. The lowest rate is in Wyoming, with drivers in the state with lots of wide open spaces racking up lots of vehicle miles per year but paying only six cents per mile for coverage.

	State	Avg. insurance cost	Avg. annual mileage	Cost of insurance per kilometer
1	Michigan	$2,532	12,317	$0.21
2	New York	$1,692	8,404	$0.20
3	Rhode Island	$1,872	9,381	$0.20
4	Florida	$2,328	13,240	$0.18
5	California	$1,824	11 102	$0.16
6	Louisiana	$2,304	14,158	$0.16
seven	Delaware	$1,620	10,064	$0.16

Hotels, the engine of the state economy

Delaware hotels are a bigger part of the economy than many of us realize.

This is one of the interesting things that came out of a recent report.

HotelTechReport analyzed industry data for each U.S. state, finding that Hawaii hotel businesses earn the most revenue overall, with each business bringing in an average of $25,811,058 per year.

Hawaii hotels are larger on average and generate more revenue per property than any other state.

Average revenue per hotel was not available for Delaware and a few other states.

The hotel-to-total-business ratio in Delaware is higher than in many tourism-focused states, such as Florida, Delaware has moved closer to hotel-rich Washington, D.C., as a percentage of hotels compared to total companies.

Total hotel employment in the state is just over 4,000.

Geography	Number of companies	Total number of hotel employees	Number of hotel companies as % of total number of companies	Revenue per hotel business ($)
Hawaii	277	40,067	0.55%	25,811,058
District of Colombia	119	15,158	0.49%	21,617,731
New York	2,314	87,725	0.34%	6,259,171
Florida	3,485	179,522	0.41%	5,978,995
Massachusetts	794	30 106	0.28%	5,576,243
California	5,825	228,964	0.35%	5,166,619
Illinois	1,471	50,537	0.36%	4,424,841
Nevada	439	18,199	0.43%	4,378,326
Arizona	1,082	44,384	0.55%	4,352,384
Maryland	689	21,569	0.38%	3,875,148
Colorado	1,354	48,346	0.57%	3,791,210
Vermont	230	11,565	0.79%	3,444,248
Washington	1,195	35,753	0.43%	3,239,408
Utah	600	21,447	0.47%	3,187,090
Pennsylvania	1,463	51,606	0.38%	3,150,476
Virginia	1,540	45,967	0.50%	3,109,348
Louisiana	912	22,564	0.62%	2,910,773
Caroline from the south	1,110	30,532	0.68%	2,898,925
Alaska	281	5,672	1.16%	2,796,569
Tennessee	1,417	35,632	0.72%	2,600,584
New Jersey	1,067	24,553	0.34%	2,549,206
Georgia	2,081	45,961	0.58%	2,417,830
Texas	5,515	125,553	0.70%	2,339,932
Missouri	1,076	24,905	0.47%	2,335,441
Minnesota	931	25,645	0.48%	2,234,323
Oregon	974	22,385	0.56%	2,203,448
North Carolina	1,839	43,325	0.55%	2,198,276
Idaho	363	10,375	0.43%	2,158,722
Ohio	1,416	34,298	0.44%	2,116,667
Wyoming	384	7,686	1.33%	2,102,995
Michigan	1,350	34,180	0.48%	2,074,101
New Hampshire	326	8,075	0.53%	2,054,549
Maine	477	8,572	0.79%	1,961,549
Indiana	1,010	19 112	0.55%	1,875,090
Wisconsin	1,136	28,509	0.59%	1,873,733
Kentucky	750	14,556	0.55%	1,761,199
New Mexico	648	15,343	0.95%	1,737,432
Montana	515	9,559	0.90%	1,546,082
West Virginia	317	7,182	0.57%	1,541,628
Nebraska	455	7,365	0.58%	1,463,352
Oklahoma	864	13,444	0.72%	1,399,120
North Dakota	306	5,267	0.92%	1,300,853
Iowa	751	12,763	0.69%	1,288,691
Kansas	624	10,147	0.67%	1,274,149
South Dakota	442	6,574	1.17%	1,147,817
Arkansas	718	10,601	0.73%	1,120,060
Mississippi	689	9,806	0.88%	1,067,190
Alabama	886	17,348	0.62%	N / A
Delaware	181	4,023	0.47%	N / A
Rhode Island	143	4,481	0.32%	N / A
Connecticut	375	10,568	0.28%