Rural Virginians, and especially rural parents, face significant distances to hospital-based health care, with travel distances of up to 4.6 times as far, on average, as urban Virginians. 

Average number of miles to specific type of hospital-based health care service from center of census tract in Virginia

Sources: Data on hospital services is from the American Hospital Association Survey. Files used for mapping are from the National Historical Geographic Information System.
Data analysis by Hannah Friedman, Ph.D. student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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