Health-Care Providers

	Number
Total MDs (1999)	20,600
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999)	14,121
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999)	6,479
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999)	7,754
MDs with Pediatric Specialty	1,658
MDs with Allergy & Immunology Specialty	123
MDs with Pulmonary Disease Specialty	132

Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization

	Number
Hospitals (1999)	75
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999)	50
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999)	61
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999)	52
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999)	40
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999)	57
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999)	55
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999)	47
Hospital Admissions	960,835
Hospital beds	21,322

HMOs and HMO Membership

	Number	Membership
Total HMOs (1998)	89	1,790,731
Traditional HMOs (1998)	9	44,299
IPA HMOs (1998)	29	187,467
Other HMOs (1998)	51	1,558,965

Demographics

	Number	Percent
Total Population (1999)	6,949,660	100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999)	4,130,346	59.4
Hispanic Whites (1999)	991,429	14.3
Blacks (1999)	1,460,482	21.0
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999)	17,032	0.2
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999)	350,371	5.0
Total Hispanics (1999)	1,060,914	15.3

Income, Education and Employment

Avg per capita income (1998)	34,151
Avg median household income (1997)	45,824
Persons in poverty (1997)	806,655
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990)	10
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990)	25
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999)	4