HSA# 53 - BARREN, KY-MONROE, 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 244.1 82.5 169.2 48.4
Whites 243.1 82.6 168.5 49.3
Blacks 260.3 82.9* 184.2* 31.3*
Males 337.7 85.6 244.0 48.2
Females 173.8 81.1 113.3 46.9
White Males 340.8 85.4 247.9 48.2
White Females 169.4 81.0 109.0 48.1
Black Males 270.4* 93.9* 164.0* 50.9*
Black Females 240.9* 76.4* 189.9* 19.4*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 78
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 64
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 14
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 37
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 5
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 3
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 0
Registered Nurses (1990) 268
Registered Dieticians (1990) 38

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 3
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 0
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 0
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 1
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 0
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 1
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 1
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 0
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 2
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 0
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 2
Total admissions (1999) 10,770
Total beds (1999) 263
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 0
Inpatient days (1999) 45,765
Outpatient visits (1999) 101,861
Emergency Department visits (1999) 37,607

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 15 559
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 3 145
Other HMOs (1998) 12 414

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 74,972 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 70,538 94.1
Hispanic Whites (1999) 399 0.5
Blacks (1999) 3,805 5.1
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 91 0.1
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 139 0.2
Total Hispanics (1999) 417 0.6

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 19,232
Avg median household income (1997) 26,269
Persons in poverty (1997) 14,629
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 6
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 33
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 7

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