HSA# 10 - ALBANY (ALBANY), NY-RENSSELAER, NY

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 221.6 53.9 54.4 15.3
Whites 221.2 53.7 54.8 15.3
Blacks 243.5 55.8 46.6 15.5*
Males 277.0 55.0 70.6 16.8
Females 180.0 52.7 42.7 14.4
White Males 278.5 55.3 71.5 17.1
White Females 178.3 52.3 42.8 14.0
Black Males 256.2 40.6* 50.0* 5.5*
Black Females 228.9 62.6 42.2* 22.6*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 1,639
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 1,169
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 470
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 335
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 86
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 52
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 34
Registered Nurses (1990) 4,972
Registered Dieticians (1990) 210

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 7
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 6
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 2
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 2
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 6
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 2
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 5
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 5
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 5
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 5
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 6
Total admissions (1999) 71,308
Total beds (1999) 1,646
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 38
Inpatient days (1999) 456,225
Outpatient visits (1999) 1421269
Emergency Department visits (1999) 206,888

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 19 213,168
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 8 146,541
Other HMOs (1998) 11 66,627

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 479,416 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 425,406 88.7
Hispanic Whites (1999) 8,010 1.7
Blacks (1999) 34,051 7.1
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 983 0.2
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 10,966 2.3
Total Hispanics (1999) 9,679 2.0

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 28,334
Avg median household income (1997) 39,840
Persons in poverty (1997) 52,595
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 3
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 8
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 25

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