HSA# 88 - SCHENECTADY (SCHENECTADY), NY-WARREN, 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 204.7 52.2 70.5 14.2
Whites 206.0 52.2 71.1 14.5
Blacks 192.8 56.3* 53.0* 4.5*
Males 265.8 56.4 92.2 14.6
Females 159.8 49.3 54.0 14.0
White Males 268.6 56.5 93.5 14.7
White Females 160.1 49.4 54.3 14.3
Black Males 211.3* 49.4* 48.2* 14.1*
Black Females 183.4 56.4* 52.6* 0.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 924
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 790
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 134
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 278
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 62
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 33
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 27
Registered Nurses (1990) 4,450
Registered Dieticians (1990) 197

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 5
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 1
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 1
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 3
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 3
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 4
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 4
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 2
Total admissions (1999) 39,474
Total beds (1999) 1,279
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 14
Inpatient days (1999) 309,578
Outpatient visits (1999) 1016069
Emergency Department visits (1999) 164,972

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 30 227,292
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 15 135,682
Other HMOs (1998) 15 91,610

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 470,376 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 444,191 94.4
Hispanic Whites (1999) 6,786 1.4
Blacks (1999) 12,414 2.6
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 945 0.2
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 6,040 1.3
Total Hispanics (1999) 8,331 1.8

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 26,026
Avg median household income (1997) 41,743
Persons in poverty (1997) 45,563
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 4
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 7
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 22

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