HSA# 8 - SCHUYLKILL, PA-MONTOUR, PA

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 268.2 59.3 112.8 14.7
Whites 268.8 59.2 113.1 14.8
Blacks 313.1* 136.5* 127.0* 0.0*
Males 346.5 59.5 145.2 16.5
Females 211.5 57.5 88.0 13.6
White Males 348.0 59.4 145.8 16.6
White Females 211.7 57.2 88.2 13.6
Black Males 278.3* 221.6* 139.7* 0.0*
Black Females 261.4* 163.1* 81.5* 0.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 644
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 472
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 172
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 160
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 26
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 23
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 72
Registered Nurses (1990) 2,910
Registered Dieticians (1990) 88

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 8
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 2
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 1
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 6
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 4
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 4
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 6
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 5
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 4
Total admissions (1999) 45,774
Total beds (1999) 1,187
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 37
Inpatient days (1999) 279,469
Outpatient visits (1999) 982,573
Emergency Department visits (1999) 162,193

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 22 70,729
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 14 14,940
Other HMOs (1998) 8 55,789

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 337,943 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 326,165 96.5
Hispanic Whites (1999) 3,507 1.0
Blacks (1999) 6,104 1.8
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 405 0.1
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 1,762 0.5
Total Hispanics (1999) 4,328 1.3

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 22,444
Avg median household income (1997) 32,415
Persons in poverty (1997) 35,059
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 5
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 13
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 10

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