Hospital Highlights 4/7/11

Whitman County Health Ranks Third

Whitman County ranked third among the state’s 39 counties in a county-by-county health survey released late last week. San Juan County has the healthiest residents and Ferry County the least healthy, according to the survey by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The study looked at three major categories of data; Health Outcomes, Health Factors and Programs and Policies.

For Health Outcomes, the researchers considered morbidity and mortality rates. They concluded, for example, that residents of Ferry...