HSA# 60 - RALEIGH, WV-FAYETTE, WV

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 295.1 53.4 122.0 13.1
Whites 296.6 52.6 123.8 13.7
Blacks 296.2 74.7 103.3 8.1*
Males 378.6 50.0 174.9 14.3
Females 235.6 54.4 84.9 12.0
White Males 376.9 45.8 177.1 14.6
White Females 236.9 56.3 85.6 12.8
Black Males 411.9 141.1* 140.8* 15.4*
Black Females 242.0 30.9* 83.9 3.5*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 240
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 208
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 32
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 86
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 15
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 7
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 35
Registered Nurses (1990) 858
Registered Dieticians (1990) 45

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 6
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 1
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 1
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 6
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 0
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) 4
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 2
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 1
Total admissions (1999) 27,935
Total beds (1999) 811
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 6
Inpatient days (1999) 186,631
Outpatient visits (1999) 344,406
Emergency Department visits (1999) 97,513

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 7 3,148
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 6 3,143
Other HMOs (1998) 1 5

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 166,582 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 154,895 93.0
Hispanic Whites (1999) 900 0.5
Blacks (1999) 9,813 5.9
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 241 0.1
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 733 0.4
Total Hispanics (1999) 1,060 0.6

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 17,923
Avg median household income (1997) 25,517
Persons in poverty (1997) 33,393
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 9
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 21
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 9

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