Here is a list of the 50 states and the District of Columbia ranked by total number of emergency room visits per 1,000 residents.
This list is based on data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Data was accessed Feb. 13.
Data includes information for community hospitals, which represents 85 percent of all hospitals, according to KFF. Data does not include information from federal hospitals, long-term care hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, institutions for individuals with mental disabilities and alcoholism, or other chemical dependency hospitals.
District of Columbia — 741
Maine — 726
West Virginia — 644
Mississippi — 591
Ohio — 587
Louisiana — 573
Kentucky — 565
Tennessee — 530
Vermont — 524
Rhode Island — 517
Missouri — 512
North Dakota — 509
Alabama — 508
Indiana — 508
Pennsylvania — 507
New Hampshire — 505
South Carolina — 505
Michigan — 504
Arkansas — 499
Delaware — 491
New Mexico — 490
North Carolina — 480
Oklahoma — 479
Massachusetts — 478
Connecticut — 464
Florida — 448
Alaska — 441
Virginia — 440
Iowa — 437
New York — 437
Illinois — 433
Georgia — 430
Wisconsin — 422
Kansas — 417
Wyoming — 414
Maryland — 412
Idaho — 409
Montana — 401
New Jersey — 390
Texas — 388
Oregon — 383
Colorado — 378
Nebraska — 378
Washington — 373
Minnesota — 358
California — 351
Utah — 343
Hawaii— 342
Arizona — 337
Nevada — 333
South Dakota — 316