Wisconsin ranks 11th best in US for state health system performance

The Commonwealth Fund just released their 2017 scorecard on state health system performance. Wisconsin came in at a respectable 11 out of 51 states/territories, which puts us in the top third in the nation.  

The interactive version of the report is fascinating to play around

with: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/interactives/2017/mar/state-scorecard/. Here you'll find more on state gains in access to health care, improvements in readmission rates, and patient safety improvements. Not all news is good though, premature adult death rates rose among adults in almost 2/3 of states and in every state African-Americans are more likely than whites to die from treatable conditions. In WI, we are not doing well in this area (see below).