HSA# 36 - BERGEN, NJ-HUDSON (JERSEY CITY), 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 219.2 48.3 82.0 14.6
Whites 223.3 47.0 84.0 14.8
Blacks 211.4 65.7 73.3 15.7
Males 277.1 51.9 108.8 15.2
Females 178.2 45.4 63.9 14.2
White Males 286.1 51.3 112.8 15.6
White Females 179.2 43.8 64.5 14.3
Black Males 228.6 62.8 86.2 15.7
Black Females 195.1 66.0 65.4 15.6

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 5,669
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 4,233
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 1,436
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 1,421
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 364
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 237
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 130
Registered Nurses (1990) 15,958
Registered Dieticians (1990) 595

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 19
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 9
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 3
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 6
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 13
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 2
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 13
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 13
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 9
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 13
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 12
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 9
Total admissions (1999) 260,387
Total beds (1999) 5,466
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 99
Inpatient days (1999) 1318165
Outpatient visits (1999) 4608671
Emergency Department visits (1999) 643,845

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 46 592,855
Traditional HMOs (1998) 3 21,621
IPA HMOs (1998) 30 483,071
Other HMOs (1998) 13 88,163

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 1,894,935 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 1,103,835 58.3
Hispanic Whites (1999) 389,218 20.5
Blacks (1999) 226,601 12.0
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 6,176 0.3
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 169,105 8.9
Total Hispanics (1999) 444,759 23.5

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 36,018
Avg median household income (1997) 47,287
Persons in poverty (1997) 201,811
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 5
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 12
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 25

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