Welcome to the home page of the Hospital and Patient Data Section of the Center for Health Statistics. HPDS is responsible for collecting and publishing critical information that is needed to help Washingtonians live healthier lives.

By providing access to current, high quality health data that covers community hospitals in Washington State, CHS\HPDS enables people to make better informed decisions about healthcare and health plans. These data are also used by policy makers, health professionals, community-based organizations, and researchers to understand trends, identify high risk populations (and geographic areas), set prevention priorities, and plan targeted health promotion strategies. 

We have grouped our data into several sections as shown on the far left; Patient Information has data relevant to hospital inpatients including charity care, Hospital Discharge Data has data relevant to hospital census and charges by various categories. Hospital Financial has information on hospital financials and utilization. CHARS UB-04 project has information on the conversion from UB-92 record layout to the new UB-04 layout.

Particular data sets at CHS\HPDS include: CHARS the inpatient discharge database that describes the individual patients  hospital stay, FIN the Financial database which describes the year to year audited financial and utilization history of the hospital and the Quarterly database which describes the un-audited quarter to quarter financial and utilization history of the hospital.

Data are distributed as raw data sets, statistical tabulations, web pages and through printed reports, including Washington State Charity Care in Washington Hospitals. We at the Center for Health Statistics are proud of the effort put into capturing, analyzing and providing quality data. Please explore these pages and let us know what works, or doesn't work, for you.