HSA# 41 - WESTCHESTER (YONKERS), NY-DUTCHESS, NY

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 224.5 44.6 67.9 15.3
Whites 226.2 43.8 69.6 15.7
Blacks 220.8 52.9 56.7 12.2
Males 274.6 45.0 88.1 15.7
Females 186.7 43.4 53.1 15.2
White Males 277.6 43.5 91.0 16.3
White Females 186.9 43.0 53.8 15.5
Black Males 271.3 65.5 66.8 10.7*
Black Females 189.3 45.3 49.3 13.3

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 6,169
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 4,587
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 1,582
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 1,483
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 347
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 193
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 65
Registered Nurses (1990) 14,217
Registered Dieticians (1990) 656

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 21
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 7
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 2
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 2
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 15
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 12
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 10
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 8
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 14
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 12
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 9
Total admissions (1999) 167,944
Total beds (1999) 4,924
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 44
Inpatient days (1999) 1298166
Outpatient visits (1999) 2555566
Emergency Department visits (1999) 463,572

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 59 531,689
Traditional HMOs (1998) 2 69,529
IPA HMOs (1998) 35 329,766
Other HMOs (1998) 22 132,394

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 1,435,946 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 1,074,695 74.8
Hispanic Whites (1999) 119,834 8.3
Blacks (1999) 173,640 12.1
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 3,038 0.2
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 64,739 4.5
Total Hispanics (1999) 136,039 9.5

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 40,362
Avg median household income (1997) 52,229
Persons in poverty (1997) 128,634
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 3
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 8
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 31

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