HSA# 190 - COBB (MARIETTA), GA-CHEROKEE, 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 180.7 64.4 61.0 23.6
Whites 181.5 63.6 60.3 23.8
Blacks 193.4 77.1 86.6 26.3*
Males 229.5 67.9 80.6 20.3
Females 144.1 62.5 47.0 24.9
White Males 229.8 67.2 79.3 20.7
White Females 144.6 61.7 46.6 24.9
Black Males 240.4 76.7 117.7 17.2*
Black Females 164.8 77.3 68.2 30.6*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 1,108
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 1,000
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 108
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 361
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 93
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 28
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 21
Registered Nurses (1990) 5,051
Registered Dieticians (1990) 207

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 9
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 0
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 2
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 7
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 0
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 4
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 7
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 6
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 4
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 3
Total admissions (1999) 51,431
Total beds (1999) 1,231
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 26
Inpatient days (1999) 255,420
Outpatient visits (1999) 344,294
Emergency Department visits (1999) 99,292

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 67 226,385
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 34 94,418
Other HMOs (1998) 33 131,967

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 917,013 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 778,645 84.9
Hispanic Whites (1999) 29,247 3.2
Blacks (1999) 85,713 9.3
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 2,484 0.3
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 20,924 2.3
Total Hispanics (1999) 31,327 3.4

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 30,212
Avg median household income (1997) 51,403
Persons in poverty (1997) 62,318
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 3
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 7
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 26

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