Preferred Language Spoken in California Facilities

The dataset contains combined counts for hospital discharges, emergency room encounters, and ambulatory surgeries by preferred language spoken at each facility. The nearly 100 languages collected in the patient-level data were combined into eight geographical or cultural groups: English Language, Spanish Language, Asian/Pacific Islander Languages, Middle Eastern Languages, European Languages, African Languages, Latin American Languages, Native American Languages, and Sign Language. See the Preferred Language Spoken Language List below to see the exact separation of languages.

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Field Value
Contact Email [email protected]
Program Department of Health Care Access and Information, Healthcare Analytics Branch
Homepage URL https://hcai.ca.gov/visualizations
Temporal Coverage

2021
Spatial/Geographic Coverage

Statewide
Geographic Granularity Location Point
Language English (EN)
Frequency Annually
De-Identification Method

The counts of languages (e.g., Tonga and French) and language groups (e.g., Spanish Language or European Languages) that are less than 30 are replaced with '1'. The English Language Group and Spanish Language Groups are rounded to the nearest tens place value. Other/Unknown/Missing Languages are not included.
Source Link https://hcai.ca.gov/data-and-reports/healthcare-utilization/ or https://hcai.ca.gov/visualizations/
Data Collection Tool

https://hcai.ca.gov/data-and-reports/submit-data/patient-data/
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Limitations Use of this data is subject to the CHHS Terms of Use and any copyright and proprietary notices incorporated in or accompanying the individual files.
Citation

HCAI Patient Discharge Data (PDD); HCAI Emergency Department Data (ED); HCAI Ambulatory Surgery Data (AS)
Last Updated November 7, 2023, 17:56 (UTC)