HSA# 48 - YORK (YORK), PA-FREDERICK, MD

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 198.1 60.4 83.2 18.6
Whites 198.7 60.0 83.6 18.7
Blacks 185.3 72.8 68.5 15.3*
Males 251.8 62.7 111.6 21.0
Females 155.2 57.5 60.7 16.6
White Males 252.5 61.5 112.1 21.4
White Females 155.5 57.6 60.9 16.6
Black Males 235.1 103.8 82.2* 11.0*
Black Females 147.7 51.6* 53.5* 17.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 859
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 731
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 128
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 298
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 42
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 24
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 87
Registered Nurses (1990) 3,779
Registered Dieticians (1990) 181

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 5
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 3
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 3
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 5
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 5
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 5
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 5
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 5
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 4
Total admissions (1999) 53,792
Total beds (1999) 927
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 20
Inpatient days (1999) 253,570
Outpatient visits (1999) 1243792
Emergency Department visits (1999) 219,162

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 28 146,899
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 21 123,599
Other HMOs (1998) 7 23,300

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 655,152 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 604,486 92.3
Hispanic Whites (1999) 11,714 1.8
Blacks (1999) 30,683 4.7
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 1,142 0.2
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 7,127 1.1
Total Hispanics (1999) 13,888 2.1

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 26,549
Avg median household income (1997) 46,041
Persons in poverty (1997) 41,802
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 3
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 11
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 16

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