HSA# 260 - BEDFORD, TN

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 259.9 88.6 125.1 14.7*
Whites 258.5 88.0 125.9 16.0*
Blacks 278.9 100.3* 116.2* 0.0*
Males 341.9 73.0 162.8 12.5*
Females 198.1 94.1 94.5 15.4*
White Males 353.4 75.9 168.2 14.2*
White Females 192.5 92.0 93.2 16.5*
Black Males 277.5* 72.8* 113.6* 0.0*
Black Females 283.1* 114.3* 128.2* 0.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 22
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 18
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 4
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 12
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 2
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 1
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 2
Registered Nurses (1990) 127
Registered Dieticians (1990) 8

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 1
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) 0
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) 0
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 0
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 0
Total admissions (1999) 2,681
Total beds (1999) 180
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 0
Inpatient days (1999) 40,376
Outpatient visits (1999) 124,743
Emergency Department visits (1999) 33,032

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 6 4,033
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 2 1,368
Other HMOs (1998) 4 2,665

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 34,905 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 30,336 86.9
Hispanic Whites (1999) 328 0.9
Blacks (1999) 3,903 11.2
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 56 0.2
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 282 0.8
Total Hispanics (1999) 387 1.1

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 21,219
Avg median household income (1997) 32,347
Persons in poverty (1997) 4,142
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 5
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 22
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 11

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