HSA# 23 - CAMDEN (CAMDEN), NJ-BURLINGTON, NJ

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 227.5 53.4 75.5 13.4
Whites 230.1 52.4 76.0 13.6
Blacks 220.0 63.3 76.0 11.0
Males 285.0 53.6 97.6 12.9
Females 185.0 52.7 60.0 13.0
White Males 293.0 53.0 100.7 13.1
White Females 183.8 51.5 58.9 13.2
Black Males 245.2 61.0 76.3 10.2*
Black Females 199.9 63.5 73.4 11.3

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 2,574
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 1,928
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 646
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 631
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 162
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 124
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 430
Registered Nurses (1990) 12,178
Registered Dieticians (1990) 391

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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) 2
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 4
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 9
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 9
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 9
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 9
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 3
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 3
Total admissions (1999) 131,574
Total beds (1999) 2,698
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 17
Inpatient days (1999) 654,037
Outpatient visits (1999) 1901009
Emergency Department visits (1999) 435,005

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 68 684,659
Traditional HMOs (1998) 4 34,748
IPA HMOs (1998) 50 569,742
Other HMOs (1998) 14 80,169

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 1,242,629 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 931,305 74.9
Hispanic Whites (1999) 61,523 5.0
Blacks (1999) 204,139 16.4
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 3,917 0.3
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 41,745 3.4
Total Hispanics (1999) 79,414 6.4

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 27,777
Avg median household income (1997) 46,862
Persons in poverty (1997) 113,716
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 4
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 7
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 21

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