HSA# 303 - WILL (JOLIET), IL-GRUNDY, 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 234.0 57.9 118.9 18.5
Whites 233.9 57.6 119.0 18.6
Blacks 254.3 59.6 132.1 16.2*
Males 284.5 59.1 146.8 18.3
Females 196.2 56.5 98.6 18.2
White Males 283.5 58.6 148.2 18.8
White Females 197.0 56.3 98.3 18.3
Black Males 349.5 81.2* 150.7 13.5*
Black Females 188.5 48.8* 110.4 16.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 407
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 354
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 53
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 132
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 32
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 16
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 26
Registered Nurses (1990) 3,540
Registered Dieticians (1990) 99

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 3
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 1
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 2
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 2
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 2
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 3
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 3
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 2
Total admissions (1999) 31,490
Total beds (1999) 678
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 10
Inpatient days (1999) 145,829
Outpatient visits (1999) 710,745
Emergency Department visits (1999) 99,192

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 37 117,817
Traditional HMOs (1998) 3 1,528
IPA HMOs (1998) 12 12,586
Other HMOs (1998) 22 103,703

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 515,573 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 412,984 80.1
Hispanic Whites (1999) 36,134 7.0
Blacks (1999) 56,014 10.9
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 1,145 0.2
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 9,296 1.8
Total Hispanics (1999) 38,791 7.5

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 26,270
Avg median household income (1997) 53,787
Persons in poverty (1997) 31,762
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 4
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 7
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 18

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