HSA# 22 - MIDDLESEX, MA-SUFFOLK (BOSTON), MA

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 162.2 47.9 62.2 21.3
Whites 163.0 47.3 62.7 21.5
Blacks 177.9 58.2 64.9 22.7
Males 216.8 48.3 82.1 22.1
Females 123.6 46.7 47.9 20.5
White Males 219.0 47.6 83.4 22.3
White Females 123.5 46.1 47.9 20.6
Black Males 217.5 58.5 71.5 21.4
Black Females 147.8 55.9 58.4 22.6

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 15,072
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 9,917
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 5,155
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 3,117
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 618
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 501
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 54
Registered Nurses (1990) 36,110
Registered Dieticians (1990) 1,869

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 33
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 19
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 12
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 20
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 31
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 8
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 30
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 29
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 25
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 31
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 30
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 25
Total admissions (1999) 412,919
Total beds (1999) 8,241
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 239
Inpatient days (1999) 2189596
Outpatient visits (1999) 8890677
Emergency Department visits (1999) 1321591

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 47 1,694,541
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 23 502,240
Other HMOs (1998) 24 1,192,301

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 3,397,426 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 2,788,616 82.1
Hispanic Whites (1999) 144,666 4.3
Blacks (1999) 283,724 8.4
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 8,439 0.2
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 171,981 5.1
Total Hispanics (1999) 186,509 5.5

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 37,476
Avg median household income (1997) 48,943
Persons in poverty (1997) 323,613
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 3
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 6
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 31

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