HSA# 124 - KENT, MD

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 238.0 53.2 79.9 3.8*
Whites 251.1 50.1 87.5 5.0*
Blacks 200.3 64.2* 56.1* 0.0*
Males 263.3 45.8* 112.5 2.9*
Females 209.3 58.1 49.6 3.7*
White Males 271.0 56.6* 117.3 3.8*
White Females 223.4 45.6* 58.7 5.0*
Black Males 245.3* 15.4* 99.6* 0.0*
Black Females 162.1* 101.4* 17.0* 0.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 41
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 35
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 6
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 14
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 3
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 3
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 1
Registered Nurses (1990) 86
Registered Dieticians (1990) 0

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 1
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 1
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 0
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 0
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 1
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 0
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 0
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 1
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 1
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 0
Total admissions (1999) 2,830
Total beds (1999) 64
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 3
Inpatient days (1999) 12,138
Outpatient visits (1999) 42,043
Emergency Department visits (1999) 9,607

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 6 6,980
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 5 2,912
Other HMOs (1998) 1 4,068

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 19,089 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 13,384 70.1
Hispanic Whites (1999) 548 2.9
Blacks (1999) 5,011 26.3
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 48 0.3
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 98 0.5
Total Hispanics (1999) 616 3.2

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 26,128
Avg median household income (1997) 36,391
Persons in poverty (1997) 1,949
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 4
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 11
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 17

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