HSA# 91 - HILLSBOROUGH (MANCHESTER), NH-MERRIMACK, NH

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 223.9 66.4 63.2 7.5
Whites 224.9 66.7 63.5 7.5
Blacks 194.7* 37.1* 87.0* 0.0*
Males 287.9 70.0 90.3 8.3
Females 175.8 63.5 45.0 7.1
White Males 289.6 70.4 90.6 8.2
White Females 176.5 63.9 45.3 7.1
Black Males 252.2* 67.7* 172.5* 0.0*
Black Females 125.5* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 1,150
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 1,030
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 120
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 367
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 75
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 37
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 14
Registered Nurses (1990) 5,139
Registered Dieticians (1990) 208

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 12
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 3
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 6
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 11
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 2
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 10
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 11
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 8
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 11
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 10
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 10
Total admissions (1999) 57,932
Total beds (1999) 1,631
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 12
Inpatient days (1999) 334,789
Outpatient visits (1999) 1303787
Emergency Department visits (1999) 267,928

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 32 192,556
Traditional HMOs (1998) 2 47
IPA HMOs (1998) 14 74,594
Other HMOs (1998) 16 117,915

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 591,028 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 566,638 95.9
Hispanic Whites (1999) 10,720 1.8
Blacks (1999) 4,740 0.8
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 1,257 0.2
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 7,673 1.3
Total Hispanics (1999) 11,861 2.0

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 30,337
Avg median household income (1997) 44,491
Persons in poverty (1997) 43,046
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 3
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 7
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 25

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