HSA# 26 - CLEARFIELD, PA-CENTRE ( ), 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 211.1 55.9 100.3 28.9
Whites 211.9 56.0 101.0 29.1
Blacks 215.8* 37.8* 57.6* 0.0*
Males 273.7 56.8 138.8 32.7
Females 165.2 55.7 71.1 25.7
White Males 274.5 57.2 139.9 32.9
White Females 166.0 55.7 71.5 25.8
Black Males 691.4* 0.0* 13.4* 0.0*
Black Females 120.9* 40.8* 80.1* 0.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 373
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 327
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 46
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 117
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 22
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 10
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 28
Registered Nurses (1990) 1,742
Registered Dieticians (1990) 71

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 5
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 0
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 1
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 5
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 0
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) 5
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 5
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 2
Total admissions (1999) 24,860
Total beds (1999) 581
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 14
Inpatient days (1999) 117,498
Outpatient visits (1999) 585,448
Emergency Department visits (1999) 92,000

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 11 66,219
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 5 36,465
Other HMOs (1998) 6 29,754

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 259,008 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 246,054 95.0
Hispanic Whites (1999) 2,325 0.9
Blacks (1999) 3,925 1.5
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 379 0.1
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 6,325 2.4
Total Hispanics (1999) 2,561 1.0

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 21,966
Avg median household income (1997) 34,274
Persons in poverty (1997) 28,283
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 5
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 9
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 21

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