HSA# 42 - ALLEGHENY (PITTSBURGH), PA-WESTMORELAND, 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 232.2 56.2 88.1 21.0
Whites 233.6 56.0 88.8 21.3
Blacks 219.2 58.1 78.9 16.6
Males 298.6 57.1 114.4 23.0
Females 184.6 54.6 69.7 19.6
White Males 302.0 57.1 116.5 23.2
White Females 184.5 54.4 69.4 20.0
Black Males 266.6 58.7 86.6 19.8
Black Females 186.4 56.4 73.7 14.5

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 6,645
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 4,837
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 1,808
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 1,529
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 285
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 274
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 210
Registered Nurses (1990) 23,909
Registered Dieticians (1990) 872

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 30
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 16
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 12
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 22
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 29
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 11
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 23
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 28
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 17
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 27
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 22
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 20
Total admissions (1999) 336,256
Total beds (1999) 8,302
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 184
Inpatient days (1999) 2073996
Outpatient visits (1999) 4692007
Emergency Department visits (1999) 783,724

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 38 1,174,646
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 17 999,631
Other HMOs (1998) 21 175,015

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 2,143,505 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 1,914,294 89.3
Hispanic Whites (1999) 15,159 0.7
Blacks (1999) 187,786 8.8
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 2,507 0.1
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 23,759 1.1
Total Hispanics (1999) 17,526 0.8

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 28,351
Avg median household income (1997) 37,076
Persons in poverty (1997) 233,303
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 4
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 8
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 19

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