HSA# 154 - FLOYD, GA-BARTOW, GA

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 222.7 78.6 98.9 29.4
Whites 226.1 78.6 100.8 30.5
Blacks 204.8 81.3 85.9 22.9*
Males 291.7 86.1 127.7 30.6
Females 173.6 73.2 78.2 28.0
White Males 298.2 86.7 131.2 32.1
White Females 173.2 72.7 78.2 28.8
Black Males 229.7 80.2* 93.9 16.5*
Black Females 192.2 82.5 82.8 25.1*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 373
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 327
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 46
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 132
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 26
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 8
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 13
Registered Nurses (1990) 1,099
Registered Dieticians (1990) 46

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 5
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 2
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 2
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 2
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 4
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 4
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 2
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 3
Total admissions (1999) 28,964
Total beds (1999) 589
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 20
Inpatient days (1999) 120,716
Outpatient visits (1999) 460,186
Emergency Department visits (1999) 138,355

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 31 22,371
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 21 12,758
Other HMOs (1998) 10 9,613

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 261,570 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 221,117 84.5
Hispanic Whites (1999) 4,382 1.7
Blacks (1999) 33,757 12.9
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 665 0.3
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 1,649 0.6
Total Hispanics (1999) 4,825 1.8

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 21,203
Avg median household income (1997) 33,655
Persons in poverty (1997) 36,180
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 5
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 19
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 10

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