Health-Care Providers

	Number
Total MDs (1999)	13,179
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999)	8,945
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999)	4,234
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999)	4,073
MDs with Pediatric Specialty	993
MDs with Allergy & Immunology Specialty	63
MDs with Pulmonary Disease Specialty	141

Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization

	Number
Hospitals (1999)	49
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999)	31
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999)	31
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999)	26
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999)	23
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999)	31
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999)	27
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999)	21
Hospital Admissions	573,090
Hospital beds	13,625

HMOs and HMO Membership

	Number	Membership
Total HMOs (1998)	70	1,627,276
Traditional HMOs (1998)	4	0
IPA HMOs (1998)	46	1,538,417
Other HMOs (1998)	20	88,859

Demographics

	Number	Percent
Total Population (1999)	3,707,238	100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999)	2,668,023	72.0
Hispanic Whites (1999)	126,618	3.4
Blacks (1999)	788,415	21.3
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999)	7,002	0.2
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999)	117,180	3.2
Total Hispanics (1999)	155,671	4.2

Income, Education and Employment

Avg per capita income (1998)	32,540
Avg median household income (1997)	44,135
Persons in poverty (1997)	440,630
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990)	8
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990)	24
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999)	4