HSA# 123 - LETCHER, KY

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 250.9 73.4 147.0 80.2
Whites 253.2 73.2 149.1 79.8
Blacks 516.9* 83.0* 0.0* 516.9*
Males 307.7 57.1* 195.5 74.9
Females 204.4 79.1 109.3 74.0
White Males 314.1 54.7* 198.9 69.7
White Females 204.9 80.2 110.7 75.0
Black Males 0.0* 160.1* 0.0* 516.9*
Black Females 0.0* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 32
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 28
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 4
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 11
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 4
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 1
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 0
Registered Nurses (1990) 87
Registered Dieticians (1990) 12

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 2
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) 2
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 0
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 1
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 1
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 1
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 0
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 0
Total admissions (1999) 4,987
Total beds (1999) 129
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 0
Inpatient days (1999) 17,422
Outpatient visits (1999) 177,215
Emergency Department visits (1999) 20,183

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 4 186
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 1 36
Other HMOs (1998) 3 150

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 26,069 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 25,702 98.6
Hispanic Whites (1999) 94 0.4
Blacks (1999) 201 0.8
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 30 0.1
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 42 0.2
Total Hispanics (1999) 95 0.4

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 14,769
Avg median household income (1997) 22,893
Persons in poverty (1997) 6,949
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 9
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 34
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 7

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