HSA# 96 - BELL, KY-CLAIBORNE, TN

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 285.8 55.7 154.0 29.9
Whites 289.1 56.2 156.4 28.8
Blacks 205.1* 46.8* 77.9* 61.4*
Males 337.9 47.5 202.2 34.6
Females 238.5 59.7 115.9 26.0
White Males 343.6 49.2 206.5 32.2
White Females 239.8 59.4 116.7 25.2
Black Males 178.1* 0.0* 58.5* 85.5*
Black Females 216.5* 79.1* 91.7* 53.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 104
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 94
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 10
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 49
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 7
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 1
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 0
Registered Nurses (1990) 350
Registered Dieticians (1990) 16

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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) 0
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 0
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 0
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) 3
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 3
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 2
Total admissions (1999) 17,380
Total beds (1999) 541
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 0
Inpatient days (1999) 108,325
Outpatient visits (1999) 215,291
Emergency Department visits (1999) 74,536

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 16 4,900
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 5 1,993
Other HMOs (1998) 11 2,907

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 93,048 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 89,770 96.5
Hispanic Whites (1999) 412 0.4
Blacks (1999) 2,388 2.6
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 120 0.1
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 358 0.4
Total Hispanics (1999) 462 0.5

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 15,547
Avg median household income (1997) 21,657
Persons in poverty (1997) 25,302
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 7
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 33
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 8

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