HSA# 17 - PENOBSCOT (BANGOR), ME-HANCOCK, ME

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 205.8 63.1 93.1 17.8
Whites 206.9 63.1 93.9 17.8
Blacks 121.2* 68.1* 0.0* 0.0*
Males 272.3 68.0 121.4 15.8
Females 154.8 59.6 70.4 18.2
White Males 274.3 68.2 122.7 15.9
White Females 155.2 59.6 70.8 18.1
Black Males 111.9* 97.0* 0.0* 0.0*
Black Females 132.1* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 463
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 402
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 61
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 144
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 19
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 17
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 33
Registered Nurses (1990) 1,852
Registered Dieticians (1990) 115

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 11
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 1
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 1
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 11
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 8
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 10
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 9
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 8
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 5
Total admissions (1999) 32,760
Total beds (1999) 750
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 23
Inpatient days (1999) 167,559
Outpatient visits (1999) 673,846
Emergency Department visits (1999) 125,874

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 20 42,462
Traditional HMOs (1998) 3 55
IPA HMOs (1998) 13 39,186
Other HMOs (1998) 4 3,221

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 247,531 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 240,854 97.3
Hispanic Whites (1999) 1,414 0.6
Blacks (1999) 840 0.3
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 2,771 1.1
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 1,652 0.7
Total Hispanics (1999) 1,493 0.6

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 21,488
Avg median household income (1997) 32,047
Persons in poverty (1997) 30,943
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 5
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 8
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 17

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