HSA# 381 - CALHOUN (BATTLE CREEK), MI-BARRY, MI

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 231.2 78.6 112.2 18.4
Whites 228.9 76.9 111.1 18.1
Blacks 246.4 110.3 124.4 19.4*
Males 293.2 72.7 145.8 21.0
Females 181.3 80.8 87.4 16.1
White Males 289.4 69.9 142.9 21.0
White Females 180.0 79.9 87.4 15.7
Black Males 329.9 136.5* 197.3 11.0*
Black Females 187.4 93.5* 80.7* 22.4*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 224
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 206
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 18
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 75
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 17
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 5
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 19
Registered Nurses (1990) 1,397
Registered Dieticians (1990) 51

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 4
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 0
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 1
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 0
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 3
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 4
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 3
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 3
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 2
Total admissions (1999) 18,191
Total beds (1999) 616
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 6
Inpatient days (1999) 118,828
Outpatient visits (1999) 368,606
Emergency Department visits (1999) 79,781

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 6 41,446
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 3 21,198
Other HMOs (1998) 3 20,248

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 196,028 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 172,693 88.1
Hispanic Whites (1999) 3,881 2.0
Blacks (1999) 16,605 8.5
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 925 0.5
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 1,924 1.0
Total Hispanics (1999) 4,262 2.2

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 23,700
Avg median household income (1997) 39,152
Persons in poverty (1997) 23,538
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 4
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 8
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 13

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