Health care access, cost, quality, and outcomes can vary greatly from one community to the next - both within states and across states - depending on the performance of the health care system available to residents, according to the first-ever local health system scorecard, released today by The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System.

Access the full report here, including measures of 306 local U.S. areas on key health care indicators such as insurance coverage, preventive care, mortality rates, potentially avoidable hospital use, and costs. An interactive map accompanying the report allows comparison of cities and communities across the U.S.