Rural Pennsylvanians must travel much further than urban residents to seek hospital-based health care services –
and this is especially true for parents of sick infants and children.

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

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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