HSA# 1 - ALLEGANY (CUMBERLAND), MD-GARRETT, MD

HSA Profiles

Mortality Rates

Health-Care Providers

Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization

HMOs and HMO Membership

Demographics

Income, Education and Employment

Age-Adjusted Mortality per 100,000 Population, 1996-98
  CHD Stroke AMI CHF
Overall 276.1 63.8 110.6 19.3
Whites 276.5 63.4 111.2 19.2
Blacks 306.5 116.3* 95.3* 31.0*
Males 343.8 60.5 144.5 21.6
Females 224.3 65.1 84.0 18.5
White Males 344.7 60.0 144.7 20.7
White Females 223.8 64.8 84.6 18.7
Black Males 342.1* 108.3* 161.1* 83.8*
Black Females 286.0* 120.7* 51.6* 0.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 202
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 180
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 22
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 74
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 11
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 6
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 3
Registered Nurses (1990) 1,309
Registered Dieticians (1990) 42

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 5
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 0
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 3
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 5
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 0
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 2
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 2
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 3
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 2
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 1
Total admissions (1999) 23,592
Total beds (1999) 663
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 4
Inpatient days (1999) 139,183
Outpatient visits (1999) 330,221
Emergency Department visits (1999) 98,189

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 12 18,874
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 10 12,772
Other HMOs (1998) 2 6,102

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 150,749 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 145,751 96.7
Hispanic Whites (1999) 868 0.6
Blacks (1999) 3,295 2.2
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 173 0.1
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 662 0.4
Total Hispanics (1999) 977 0.6

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 19,241
Avg median household income (1997) 29,197
Persons in poverty (1997) 22,736
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 7
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 15
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 11

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