HSA# 206 - LAURENS, GA-DODGE, 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 198.0 86.6 111.0 30.7
Whites 196.7 82.1 108.7 32.2
Blacks 206.5 101.8 118.3 27.6
Males 261.3 83.9 143.2 28.7
Females 151.5 84.5 86.2 31.5
White Males 264.8 77.7 145.8 32.6
White Females 144.1 81.4 78.0 31.8
Black Males 262.9 108.5 136.3 19.9*
Black Females 171.7 93.5 107.5 31.6*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 144
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 139
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 5
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 60
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 19
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 1
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 1
Registered Nurses (1990) 668
Registered Dieticians (1990) 53

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 5
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 0
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 0
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 0
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 2
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 3
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 0
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 3
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 2
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 3
Total admissions (1999) 15,103
Total beds (1999) 477
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 8
Inpatient days (1999) 73,865
Outpatient visits (1999) 151,249
Emergency Department visits (1999) 56,790

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 11 1,440
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 10 1,438
Other HMOs (1998) 1 2

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 126,413 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 78,472 62.1
Hispanic Whites (1999) 2,245 1.8
Blacks (1999) 44,702 35.4
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 181 0.1
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 813 0.6
Total Hispanics (1999) 2,890 2.3

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 18,556
Avg median household income (1997) 25,959
Persons in poverty (1997) 28,579
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 9
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 20
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 10

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