Table 3

CCAC Utilization per 1,000 population, fiscal year 2003-2004

Dundurn 12

Hamilton

Crude Rate

Age-Sex-Standardized Rate*

Crude Rate

CCAC Clients

40.9

37.0

34.7

Nursing Visits

799

723

532

Shift Nursing Hours

20.6

25.9

157

Personal Support and Homemaking Hours

1,678

1,373

1,622

Social Work Visits

19.6

18.1

13.1

Nutrition Visits

16.6

14.8

9.7

Speech Visits

11.6

13.8

16.0

Physiotherapy Visits

56.2

49.2

59.2

Occupational Therapy Visits

63.5

60.1

57.2

 

*  The neighbourhood rate is standardized by age and sex using the Hamilton population as the standard for age-sex controlled comparisons.  That is, the age-sex standardized rate is the rate that would result if the neighbourhood population had the same age-sex distribution as Hamilton.

 

    Source:  Hamilton Community Care Access Centre, August 2004