Inpatient Separation Rates by Local Geographic Area in Alberta

132 Local Geographic Areas in Alberta report inpatient separation rates per 1,000 population from 2011/2012 to 2013/2014. The Government of Alberta published this data in March 2015 as part of the Primary Health Care - Community Profiles report. It measures hospital utilization based on patient discharges, deaths, and transfers.

Use Cases

• Compare inpatient separation rates between a specific Local Geographic Area (LGA) and the provincial Alberta average.
• Analyze temporal trends in hospital utilization across the three fiscal years (2011/2012-2013/2014).
• Identify LGAs with unusually high or low separation rates per 1,000 population for targeted resource planning.
• Correlate LGA-level separation rates with other community health indicators from the broader profiles report.

Strengths

• Data covers 132 distinct Local Geographic Areas for granular spatial analysis.
• Provides a consistent 3-year time series across fiscal years 2011/2012 to 2013/2014.
• Rates are standardized per 1,000 population, enabling fair comparisons across areas.

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, covering a period ending over a decade before the 2026 platform update.
• The underlying population denominators and raw separation counts are not provided, limiting reproducibility.
• No patient-level or facility-level data is available, restricting analysis to aggregated rates.

Provenance

Source

Government of Alberta, Alberta Health, and Alberta Health Services.

Collection Method

Derived from hospital administrative abstracts (discharge records) and population data.

Time Range

2011/2012 to 2013/2014 fiscal years.

Freshness

Data published in 2015; platform record was updated in 2026 but the dataset itself is not current.

Geography

Alberta, Canada, aggregated to 132 Local Geographic Areas (LGAs) and provincial total.