How to Use Quality Report

To see the various parts of the report, click on the Quality Indicators and Practices link to the left or click report, on the Quality Indicators and Practices.

Brief description gives a phrase to identify the indicator. Clicking on the indicator will give a more detailed description that more fully describes the indicator, and identifies the agency that created the measure.

Each table is labeled with our goal, and the phrase "lower is better" or "higher is better". These labels indicate whether low or high numbers reflect better performance on the indicators in that table.

Color-coding assists in analyzing results, which are colored as red (worse than the national average), gray(near the national average) or green (better than the national average). If comparative data are unavailable or cannot be analyzed for technical reasons, the cell is gray.