Figure 8. The Proportion of Greater Kansas City Area Females Receiving First Trimester Prenatal Care Compared with That of National, State, and Comparison Communities

[D] Figure 8 shows the proportion of Greater Kansas City area females receiving first trimester prenatal care by norms, comparison communities, industry leaders, and consensus-based standard.

The norms include the Greater Kansas City area (87.3 percent), the Kansas area (85.7%, which is 2% under the Greater Kansas City Area benchmark), the Missouri area (85.2 percent, 2 percent under benchmark), and the U.S. (81.3 percent, 7 percent under benchmark). Comparison communities include St. Louis, 85.7 percent (2 percent under benchmark); Wichita, 86.6 percent (1 percent under benchmark); Indianapolis, 82.4 percent (6 percent under benchmark); Seattle, 86.3 percent (1 percent under benchmark), and Minneapolis, 83.6 percent (4 percent under benchmark).

Industry leaders consist of Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound (83.9 percent, 4 percent under benchmark) and NCQA HMO National Average (83.1 percent; 5 percent under benchmark). The consensus-based standard is the Healthy People 2000 Objective (90.0 percent, 3 percent over benchmark).

Note: The area nearly met the Healthy People 2000 Objective for Prenatal care.

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