HSA# 69 - ALEXANDRIA CITY, VA-ARLINGTON - ALEXANDRIA (ARLINGTON), VA

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 112.2 53.8 38.4 20.2
Whites 113.2 53.0 38.1 20.7
Blacks 145.3 72.6 54.6 17.4
Males 147.0 57.7 49.8 22.2
Females 89.0 52.1 30.3 19.0
White Males 151.4 57.7 51.6 23.1
White Females 88.4 51.3 28.6 19.5
Black Males 158.9 70.0 45.4 14.8*
Black Females 130.1 71.4 57.3 18.7*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 3,098
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 2,450
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 648
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 862
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 211
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 83
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 23
Registered Nurses (1990) 10,029
Registered Dieticians (1990) 432

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 7
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 3
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 5
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 6
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 3
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 1
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 0
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 5
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 6
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 2
Total admissions (1999) 59,227
Total beds (1999) 1,194
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 4
Inpatient days (1999) 309,230
Outpatient visits (1999) 820,260
Emergency Department visits (1999) 200,157

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 51 392,326
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 39 245,661
Other HMOs (1998) 12 146,665

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 1,394,239 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 974,488 69.9
Hispanic Whites (1999) 134,346 9.6
Blacks (1999) 137,851 9.9
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 4,340 0.3
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 143,214 10.3
Total Hispanics (1999) 144,559 10.4

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 43,669
Avg median household income (1997) 67,237
Persons in poverty (1997) 81,224
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 2
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 4
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 47

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