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Show HN: Hospital Territory Map of Virginia
- wcedmisten 3y agoHey everyone! I recently saw an article [1] about a hospital merger (Ballad Health) in southwest Virginia and how it increased ER wait times. I thought an interesting visualization would be to see who owns the hospital "territory" in Virginia. I pulled all the hospitals from OpenStreetMap and calculated a voronoi diagram from the data to get regions that are closest to any given hospital. Then I color-coded these regions by the hospital network operator, to see how much competition a given area has. [1]: https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/ballad-health-er-wait-times-copa-monopoly-appalachia-hospitals/ https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/ballad-health-er-wait...
- 082349872349872 3y agoalso: https://wcedmisten.fyi/post/visualizing-hospital-accessibility/ https://wcedmisten.fyi/post/visualizing-hospital-accessibili... (cartogram by population might be interesting?)
- wcedmisten 3y agoThat's a good idea, I'd certainty like to incorporate population into this, since it would help contextualize the population density.