Similarly, Liu and Pearlman (2009) found that all three neighborhood-level variables including neighborhood-level poverty, racial/ethnic minority residents, and crowded housing conditions were related to higher hospital readmission rates in unadjusted survival curves. However, Liu and Pearlman (2009) only found residence in an area with a high proportion of minority residents to be associated with 33% higher risk of readmission rates after controlling other covariables, whereas, the higher proportion of crowded housing conditions and neighborhood-level poverty were not associated with higher readmission rates. More recently Beck et al. (2012) found that residence in medium and high geographic risk strata was associated with 30% to 80% higher risk of ED revisit and hospital readmission, which was attributed to financial hardship. Moreover, poor access to medical home was found to significantly increase risk of hospital readmission by 56% compared with those with