Bass Lake, California is a small rural town located near the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The town boasts a healthy population of just over 3,000 people and offers its residents access to excellent healthcare. Within the town itself, there are two local hospitals, Bass Lake Community Hospital and Silver Creek Medical Center. Both of these facilities offer a wide range of services including emergency care, inpatient care, diagnostic imaging, laboratory testing, and more. In addition to the hospitals, Bass Lake has several highly-respected medical clinics and physicians practices offering family medicine and specialty care. These include First Choice Family Practice, South Bay Women's Health Care Center, and Bass Lake Eye Care. All of these facilities provide quality medical services to the residents of Bass Lake and its surrounding areas. With such excellent resources available to them for health care needs, it's no surprise that Bass Lake residents enjoy an overall healthy lifestyle.
The health of a city has many different factors. It can refer to air quality, water quality, risk of getting respiratory disease or cancer. The people you live around can also affect your health as some places have lower or higher rates of physical activity, increased alcohol intake, smoking, obesity, and cancer rates.
Physicians per Capita
There are 97 physicians per 100,000 population in Bass Lake. The US average is 210 per 100,000 people.
Health Cost Index
The annual BestPlaces Health Cost Index for the Bass Lake area is 82.7 (lower=better). The US average is 100.
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Example: 110 = 10% more expensive than national average.
Water Qualtiy Index
The annual BestPlaces Water Quality Index for the Bass Lake area is 16 (100=best). The US average is 55.
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Note that this is a measure of Watershed quality, not the water that comes from your faucet. The EPA has stated that a healthy watershed is closely related to drinking water quality. The EPA has a complex method of measuring watershed quality using 15 indicators such as pH, chemicals, metals, and bacteria.
Superfund Index
The annual BestPlaces Superfund Index for the Bass Lake area is 98 (100=best). The US average is 87.
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The EPA's Superfund program is responsible for cleaning up some of our nation's most contaminated land. Our index is based on the number of active Superfund sites (over 15,000 in the United States), with particular attention paid to those on the National Priorities List which pose the greatest health danger.
Quick Facts
Commuting can effect your health. The average person in Bass Lake commutes 25.6 minutes one-way, which is shorter than the US average of 26.4 minutes.
Air Quality Index
The annual BestPlaces Air Quality Index for the Bass Lake area is 80 (100=best). The US average is 58.
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This is based on new measures of hazardous air pollutants from the EPA, called the National Air Toxics Assessment. This analysis models respiratory illness and cancer risk down to the zip code level, providing better detail and insight than the previous analysis based solely on results from air monitoring stations.