HSA# 87 - MORRIS (PARSIPPANY-TROY HILLS TOWNSHIP), NJ-SUSSEX, NJ

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 205.4 46.0 75.8 18.1
Whites 209.5 46.2 76.9 18.3
Blacks 195.5 53.9* 100.9 29.7*
Males 244.9 44.3 93.5 18.5
Females 171.8 46.4 61.7 18.1
White Males 250.6 44.6 94.9 18.5
White Females 174.9 46.6 62.6 18.3
Black Males 252.7 65.6* 134.6* 53.9*
Black Females 160.1 49.0* 82.2* 23.3*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 1,539
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 1,250
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 289
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 419
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 99
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 58
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 68
Registered Nurses (1990) 5,677
Registered Dieticians (1990) 181

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 4
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 0
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 1
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 3
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 4
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 4
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 4
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 3
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 2
Total admissions (1999) 122,917
Total beds (1999) 2,484
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 0
Inpatient days (1999) 553,422
Outpatient visits (1999) 1208336
Emergency Department visits (1999) 263,464

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 29 121,764
Traditional HMOs (1998) 2 3,089
IPA HMOs (1998) 18 93,594
Other HMOs (1998) 9 25,081

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 608,245 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 522,693 85.9
Hispanic Whites (1999) 33,530 5.5
Blacks (1999) 17,387 2.9
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 872 0.1
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 33,763 5.6
Total Hispanics (1999) 35,400 5.8

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 43,458
Avg median household income (1997) 65,946
Persons in poverty (1997) 21,788
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 3
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 5
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 34

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