HSA# 219 - LAUDERDALE (FLORENCE), AL-COLBERT, AL

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 167.7 62.1 88.0 42.5
Whites 168.3 58.3 86.7 41.3
Blacks 171.0 107.3 108.6 57.1
Males 202.9 64.9 107.9 40.4
Females 139.4 59.1 72.6 42.4
White Males 206.1 60.7 107.3 35.9
White Females 138.4 55.8 70.7 42.9
Black Males 186.8 126.3 126.2 93.6*
Black Females 155.2 94.1 95.5 37.7*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 272
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 260
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 12
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 88
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 15
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 9
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 7
Registered Nurses (1990) 1,060
Registered Dieticians (1990) 33

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 6
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 1
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 3
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 0
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 2
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 3
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 2
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 1
Total admissions (1999) 32,011
Total beds (1999) 902
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 24
Inpatient days (1999) 219,244
Outpatient visits (1999) 276,089
Emergency Department visits (1999) 112,210

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 4 715
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 3 587
Other HMOs (1998) 1 128

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 191,054 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 169,120 88.5
Hispanic Whites (1999) 1,138 0.6
Blacks (1999) 19,962 10.4
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 367 0.2
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 467 0.2
Total Hispanics (1999) 1,244 0.7

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 20,573
Avg median household income (1997) 30,686
Persons in poverty (1997) 27,478
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 7
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 17
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 12

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