HSA# 39 - MERCER, WV-TAZEWELL, VA

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 267.4 58.6 108.0 32.8
Whites 269.9 58.2 109.9 34.4
Blacks 238.0 72.2 83.2 14.7*
Males 335.5 50.0 148.5 42.0
Females 215.3 61.4 77.9 27.9
White Males 341.0 51.0 150.4 45.1
White Females 215.8 59.8 79.4 29.1
Black Males 274.3 45.3* 127.3* 12.4*
Black Females 206.5 91.1 51.9* 15.7*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 299
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 270
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 29
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 107
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 14
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 12
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 24
Registered Nurses (1990) 1,066
Registered Dieticians (1990) 32

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 7
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 1
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 2
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 7
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 0
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 2
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 4
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 7
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 4
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 3
Total admissions (1999) 33,319
Total beds (1999) 1,018
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 19
Inpatient days (1999) 185,182
Outpatient visits (1999) 462,433
Emergency Department visits (1999) 135,185

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 10 6,687
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 8 1,869
Other HMOs (1998) 2 4,818

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 175,053 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 162,462 92.8
Hispanic Whites (1999) 1,017 0.6
Blacks (1999) 10,551 6.0
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 204 0.1
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 819 0.5
Total Hispanics (1999) 1,212 0.7

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 17,924
Avg median household income (1997) 25,488
Persons in poverty (1997) 38,552
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 9
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 25
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 9

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