HSA# 37 - PULASKI, KY-WAYNE, KY

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 201.9 53.9 102.9 36.4
Whites 203.4 54.1 104.0 36.9
Blacks 139.4* 65.9* 34.5* 0.0*
Males 262.6 53.8 147.6 38.9
Females 151.1 51.9 66.2 34.7
White Males 265.7 54.7 149.7 39.5
White Females 151.6 51.4 66.6 35.2
Black Males 97.7* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0*
Black Females 163.0* 108.6* 48.5* 0.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 111
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 102
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 9
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 40
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 10
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 3
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 2
Registered Nurses (1990) 332
Registered Dieticians (1990) 6

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 2
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 0
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 0
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 1
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 0
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 0
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 0
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 0
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 0
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 1
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 0
Total admissions (1999) 13,291
Total beds (1999) 257
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 0
Inpatient days (1999) 63,199
Outpatient visits (1999) 111,151
Emergency Department visits (1999) 40,983

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 15 10,260
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 4 278
Other HMOs (1998) 11 9,982

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 93,054 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 90,985 97.8
Hispanic Whites (1999) 472 0.5
Blacks (1999) 1,209 1.3
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 209 0.2
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 179 0.2
Total Hispanics (1999) 503 0.5

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 16,597
Avg median household income (1997) 22,776
Persons in poverty (1997) 21,791
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 6
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 33
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 8

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