HSA# 100 - WASHINGTON, PA-FAYETTE, PA

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 245.5 57.2 89.4 24.8
Whites 247.8 57.6 90.9 25.5
Blacks 197.4 50.5 52.5 9.9*
Males 306.3 60.3 110.8 28.6
Females 199.1 54.5 72.1 22.3
White Males 309.2 61.0 113.0 29.3
White Females 200.6 54.7 73.1 23.1
Black Males 242.5 53.6* 56.4* 20.2*
Black Females 166.8 47.9* 49.4* 2.6*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 455
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 384
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 71
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 173
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 25
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 13
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 16
Registered Nurses (1990) 3,394
Registered Dieticians (1990) 115

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 7
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 1
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 3
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 6
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 4
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 5
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 6
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 5
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 4
Total admissions (1999) 47,504
Total beds (1999) 1,085
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 16
Inpatient days (1999) 271,067
Outpatient visits (1999) 896,993
Emergency Department visits (1999) 193,663

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 16 159,306
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 7 127,139
Other HMOs (1998) 9 32,167

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 390,735 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 370,833 94.9
Hispanic Whites (1999) 2,673 0.7
Blacks (1999) 15,417 3.9
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 472 0.1
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 1,340 0.3
Total Hispanics (1999) 2,903 0.7

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 22,963
Avg median household income (1997) 30,829
Persons in poverty (1997) 59,361
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 6
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 13
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 12

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