HSA# 51 - WHITLEY, KY-LAUREL, 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 243.7 68.1 128.5 42.7
Whites 245.1 68.5 128.9 42.7
Blacks 162.2* 43.5* 118.7* 43.5*
Males 317.6 73.6 179.3 41.3
Females 188.0 63.5 91.2 43.1
White Males 320.8 73.8 180.9 40.2
White Females 188.1 64.0 90.7 43.7
Black Males 91.8* 48.7* 91.8* 134.9*
Black Females 182.6* 32.3* 116.3* 0.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 152
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 135
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 17
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 66
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 8
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 6
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 5
Registered Nurses (1990) 469
Registered Dieticians (1990) 30

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 4
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 0
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 2
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 2
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 3
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 2
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 2
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 3
Total admissions (1999) 19,906
Total beds (1999) 479
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 21
Inpatient days (1999) 97,853
Outpatient visits (1999) 304,391
Emergency Department visits (1999) 76,386

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 21 13,651
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 5 1,986
Other HMOs (1998) 16 11,665

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 142,901 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 140,346 98.2
Hispanic Whites (1999) 665 0.5
Blacks (1999) 1,285 0.9
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 297 0.2
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 308 0.2
Total Hispanics (1999) 685 0.5

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 15,792
Avg median household income (1997) 22,822
Persons in poverty (1997) 38,215
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 5
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 32
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 9

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