HSA# 174 - WARE, GA-BACON, 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 221.8 74.7 92.9 42.4
Whites 225.5 71.9 93.3 49.1
Blacks 209.1 87.8 93.8 15.2*
Males 328.0 76.6 143.3 50.4
Females 147.8 71.0 54.7 37.1
White Males 339.9 67.0 147.3 58.7
White Females 145.3 71.4 51.6 42.9
Black Males 286.1 117.2* 128.7* 20.5*
Black Females 159.5 69.1* 69.6* 11.8*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 80
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 71
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 9
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 32
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 7
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 0
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 3
Registered Nurses (1990) 295
Registered Dieticians (1990) 25

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 3
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) 0
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) 0
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 1
Total admissions (1999) 7,932
Total beds (1999) 278
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 0
Inpatient days (1999) 60,644
Outpatient visits (1999) 153,711
Emergency Department visits (1999) 32,760

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 4 392
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 4 392
Other HMOs (1998) 0 0

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 68,078 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 49,718 73.0
Hispanic Whites (1999) 736 1.1
Blacks (1999) 17,175 25.2
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 137 0.2
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 312 0.5
Total Hispanics (1999) 890 1.3

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 18,761
Avg median household income (1997) 26,390
Persons in poverty (1997) 15,225
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 5
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 18
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 9

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