HSA# 90 - CHESHIRE, NH-WINDHAM, VT

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 192.9 59.9 67.6 9.3
Whites 193.7 60.1 67.9 9.3
Blacks 0.0* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0*
Males 246.3 62.2 87.2 12.6*
Females 151.0 59.3 50.1 7.5*
White Males 247.6 62.5 87.7 12.6*
White Females 151.5 59.5 50.3 7.5*
Black Males 0.0* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0*
Black Females 0.0* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 204
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 179
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 25
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 81
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 5
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 5
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 2
Registered Nurses (1990) 903
Registered Dieticians (1990) 33

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 3
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 0
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 0
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 2
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 2
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 2
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 2
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 1
Total admissions (1999) 7,662
Total beds (1999) 258
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 9
Inpatient days (1999) 50,283
Outpatient visits (1999) 172,351
Emergency Department visits (1999) 33,626

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 11 41,111
Traditional HMOs (1998) 1 38
IPA HMOs (1998) 4 24,661
Other HMOs (1998) 6 16,412

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 115,071 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 112,623 97.9
Hispanic Whites (1999) 865 0.8
Blacks (1999) 505 0.4
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 220 0.2
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 858 0.7
Total Hispanics (1999) 911 0.8

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 25,415
Avg median household income (1997) 38,195
Persons in poverty (1997) 9,862
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 3
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 7
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 24

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