HSA# 70 - MONTGOMERY, VA-PULASKI, 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 217.1 64.1 71.6 16.9
Whites 219.4 63.1 71.1 16.9
Blacks 180.7 101.2* 89.6* 22.3*
Males 279.8 70.2 101.6 16.1
Females 167.7 60.4 49.4 16.5
White Males 280.7 72.3 101.0 16.9
White Females 170.1 57.6 48.9 15.8
Black Males 276.3 35.3* 120.1* 0.0*
Black Females 124.2* 133.0* 68.7* 39.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 189
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 175
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 14
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 81
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 15
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 4
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 5
Registered Nurses (1990) 903
Registered Dieticians (1990) 63

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 4
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 1
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) 3
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 4
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 4
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 3
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 4
Total admissions (1999) 12,077
Total beds (1999) 356
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 0
Inpatient days (1999) 64,976
Outpatient visits (1999) 154,625
Emergency Department visits (1999) 58,910

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 22 18,401
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 16 4,549
Other HMOs (1998) 6 13,852

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 154,224 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 140,823 91.3
Hispanic Whites (1999) 1,471 1.0
Blacks (1999) 7,411 4.8
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 173 0.1
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 4,346 2.8
Total Hispanics (1999) 1,646 1.1

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 18,916
Avg median household income (1997) 32,804
Persons in poverty (1997) 21,814
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 3
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 17
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 21

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