HSA# 28 - PHILADELPHIA (PHILADELPHIA), PA-MONTGOMERY, 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 206.2 63.3 78.1 17.9
Whites 199.0 59.6 78.9 18.1
Blacks 243.8 79.6 76.2 17.1
Males 264.2 65.9 98.7 20.9
Females 165.8 60.9 63.7 16.1
White Males 255.7 61.6 101.1 20.8
White Females 159.1 57.9 63.1 16.4
Black Males 317.0 87.3 89.8 22.1
Black Females 196.4 73.1 67.0 14.1

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 13,179
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 8,945
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 4,234
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 2,610
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 668
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 495
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 1,105
Registered Nurses (1990) 36,859
Registered Dieticians (1990) 1,677

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 49
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 20
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 14
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 23
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 31
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 14
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 31
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 26
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 23
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 31
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 27
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 21
Total admissions (1999) 573,090
Total beds (1999) 13,625
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 298
Inpatient days (1999) 3586332
Outpatient visits (1999) 8007313
Emergency Department visits (1999) 1315042

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 70 1,627,276
Traditional HMOs (1998) 4 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 46 1,538,417
Other HMOs (1998) 20 88,859

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 3,707,238 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 2,668,023 72.0
Hispanic Whites (1999) 126,618 3.4
Blacks (1999) 788,415 21.3
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 7,002 0.2
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 117,180 3.2
Total Hispanics (1999) 155,671 4.2

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 32,540
Avg median household income (1997) 44,135
Persons in poverty (1997) 440,630
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 4
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 8
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 24

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