The interactive map and table below give data on Alabama obstetric services, with Alabama's 79 primary care service areas (PCSAs) as the service areas. There are 79 PCSAs. Each PCSA is based on a centroid: a single general admission hospital in most cases, or a cluster of such hospitals in a few large urban areas, or the center of a small town without a hospital in a few rural cases. The PCSA corresponding to the centroid consists of the region of the state that is closer to that centroid than any other, as measured by drive time through the road network. The centroids are distributed throughout the state so that the PCSAs generally correspond to drive times of 30 minutes or less to the centroids. Like the counties, the PCSAs partition the state. The following terms are used in the map and table:

• Type: urban-rural classification
• Communities: the number of communities in the county with at least one hospital providing obstetric services or at least on ob-gyn physician
• Hospitals: the number of hospitals providing obstetric services in the county
• Physicians: the number of ob-gyn physicians in the county
• Ratio: The ratio of ob-gyn physicians per 10,000 women aged 15–44
• ACOG: Classification based on the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Map

The map below shows Alabama's PCSAs as a base layer. Click on a PCSA for summary information. Rural PCSAs are shaded orange and urban PCSAs are shaded green. Communities that have an OB hospital are shown as blue dots while communities that have OB physicians but no hospital are shown as red dots.

Tables

PCSA Table

In the table below, click on rows to see the corresponding PCSA highlighted in the map above. Click on a selected row again to de-select and remove the hightlight. Summary information for Alabama as a whole is given in the table footer.

Rural-Urban Table

ACOG Table and Graph

Rating	PCSAs