HSA# 80 - ST. LAWRENCE, NY-JEFFERSON, NY

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 232.1 50.2 76.5 15.0
Whites 233.8 50.1 77.3 15.0
Blacks 155.7* 151.1* 0.0* 0.0*
Males 290.8 47.7 101.6 13.6
Females 183.6 50.3 55.6 16.1
White Males 293.7 47.0 102.7 13.2
White Females 184.5 50.6 55.9 16.3
Black Males 111.9* 370.4* 0.0* 0.0*
Black Females 154.6* 48.5* 0.0* 0.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 318
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 278
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 40
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 106
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 22
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 8
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 9
Registered Nurses (1990) 1,814
Registered Dieticians (1990) 107

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 9
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 1
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 0
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) 5
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 5
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 6
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 5
Total admissions (1999) 26,435
Total beds (1999) 700
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 8
Inpatient days (1999) 163,765
Outpatient visits (1999) 685,262
Emergency Department visits (1999) 105,816

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 6 13,868
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 2 9,793
Other HMOs (1998) 4 4,075

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 250,062 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 229,005 91.6
Hispanic Whites (1999) 4,942 2.0
Blacks (1999) 11,623 4.6
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 1,554 0.6
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 2,938 1.2
Total Hispanics (1999) 7,439 3.0

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 19,191
Avg median household income (1997) 31,457
Persons in poverty (1997) 39,541
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 9
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 9
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 14

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