HSA# 151 - SULLIVAN (KINGSPORT), TN-WASHINGTON, VA

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 257.0 65.0 113.6 14.9
Whites 256.8 64.6 113.7 15.2
Blacks 297.8 87.7* 112.0 0.0*
Males 334.7 66.2 152.2 16.6
Females 199.6 63.2 84.3 14.0
White Males 334.9 66.4 152.4 17.0
White Females 198.7 62.6 84.2 14.3
Black Males 343.1 67.5* 133.3* 0.0*
Black Females 272.3 88.8* 98.8* 0.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 682
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 607
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 75
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 230
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 36
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 21
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 11
Registered Nurses (1990) 2,010
Registered Dieticians (1990) 120

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 7
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 3
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 3
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 6
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 2
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 5
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 6
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 5
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 4
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 3
Total admissions (1999) 46,183
Total beds (1999) 1,461
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 49
Inpatient days (1999) 274,169
Outpatient visits (1999) 700,775
Emergency Department visits (1999) 201,465

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 20 33,917
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 8 25,213
Other HMOs (1998) 12 8,704

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 334,057 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 324,242 97.1
Hispanic Whites (1999) 1,903 0.6
Blacks (1999) 6,148 1.8
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 624 0.2
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 1,140 0.3
Total Hispanics (1999) 2,010 0.6

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 20,758
Avg median household income (1997) 31,121
Persons in poverty (1997) 50,129
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 5
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 22
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 12

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