QUALITY OF HEALTHCARE IN REGION

Throughout the Northeast Ohio region, residents have a favorable opinion of the quality of healthcare services available in their county, although the level of favorability varies significantly by county. Medina County had the highest favorability rating with 88% rating the quality of healthcare in the county as excellent or good. This is higher than Summit County (home of Summa Health System, Akron General Medical Center, and Akron Children’s Hospital), Cuyahoga County (home of the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals), and Stark County (home of Aultman Hospital and Mercy Medical Center). While favorability rates in Summit and Stark Counties have remained largely unchanged over the past five years, favorability ratings in Medina County have increased from year to year from 80% in 2007 to 88% in 2011. 

Note: Cuyahoga is not included in this chart due to only having 1 year of data. Most recent *Medina County data is from January 2012 (not 2011).

Data referenced in this post was collected as part of the collaborative poll program at the Center for Marketing and Opinion research (CMOR). The Collaborative Poll program is a research service offered by CMOR to organizations, agencies and businesses with a county-wide interest as an affordable method of collecting information on opinions & attitudes of county residents. A Collaborative Poll is an annual telephone survey that includes questions posed by multiple organizations in which each participant pays for only those questions necessary to meet their information and research needs.

The Center for Marketing & Opinion Research (CMOR) is a full service public opinion research firm located in the Portage Lakes area providing innovative research solutions to non-profits, government agencies, social service organizations, colleges and universities, and hospitals. CMOR utilizes multiple modes of data collection including telephone, web and mail surveys and focus group administration as well as offering comprehensive consulting services including consultation on research and survey design, program evaluation, grant writing, data management, analysis and report writing.