HSA# 287 - COOK (CHICAGO), IL-DU PAGE, IL

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 233.3 60.4 90.5 16.7
Whites 223.7 58.0 90.0 16.6
Blacks 295.5 71.8 98.7 17.8
Males 294.7 63.6 111.2 18.0
Females 187.7 57.6 75.4 15.8
White Males 286.4 61.2 113.8 18.3
White Females 177.4 55.5 72.7 15.5
Black Males 362.2 77.5 105.6 18.1
Black Females 246.9 66.8 92.7 17.5

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 20,600
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 14,121
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 6,479
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 5,239
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 1,216
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 616
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 439
Registered Nurses (1990) 54,853
Registered Dieticians (1990) 2,425

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 75
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 37
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 41
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 51
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 61
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 34
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 50
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 52
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 40
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 57
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 55
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 47
Total admissions (1999) 960,835
Total beds (1999) 21,322
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 426
Inpatient days (1999) 5081938
Outpatient visits (1999) 13951479
Emergency Department visits (1999) 2481148

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 89 1,790,731
Traditional HMOs (1998) 9 44,299
IPA HMOs (1998) 29 187,467
Other HMOs (1998) 51 1,558,965

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 6,949,660 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 4,130,346 59.4
Hispanic Whites (1999) 991,429 14.3
Blacks (1999) 1,460,482 21.0
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 17,032 0.2
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 350,371 5.0
Total Hispanics (1999) 1,060,914 15.3

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 34,151
Avg median household income (1997) 45,824
Persons in poverty (1997) 806,655
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 4
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 10
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 25

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