Defining rational hospital catchments for non-urban areas based on travel-time

Table 1 Access to Hospital-care Scenario Results

Interior Health Authority			within 30 minutes		within 1 hour
		Hospitals	Population	%	Population	%
Travel-Time Approach	All Hospitals	22	575,291	87.8	623,066	95.1
	Hospitals with Critical Care & Surgeon	10	472,904	72.2	550,189	84.0
	Hospitals with Obstetrician	8	439,015	67.0	523,114	79.9
Crow -fly Approach	All Hospitals	22	n/a		640,077	97.7
	Hospitals with Critical Care & Surgeon	10	n/a		535,105	81.7
	Hospitals with Obstetrician	8	n/a		516,679	78.9

Note: for the crow -fly approach, 50 kilometres represents 1 hour; Total Population within the Interior Health Authority's adminstrative area is 655,044

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