HSA# 412 - LAUDERDALE, MS-NEWTON, MS

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 243.7 66.0 124.1 44.9
Whites 238.7 60.1 121.6 47.1
Blacks 256.5 79.9 132.4 40.9
Males 309.3 71.4 174.8 50.0
Females 194.2 61.8 87.5 42.0
White Males 311.7 67.5 177.3 52.7
White Females 182.8 56.5 79.7 43.6
Black Males 310.6 86.5 170.6 45.4
Black Females 218.2 73.6 106.2 38.4

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 246
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 221
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 25
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 77
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 13
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 10
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 20
Registered Nurses (1990) 1,236
Registered Dieticians (1990) 37

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 7
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 0
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 1
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 6
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 3
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) 1
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 3
Total admissions (1999) 30,262
Total beds (1999) 931
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 20
Inpatient days (1999) 204,517
Outpatient visits (1999) 315,037
Emergency Department visits (1999) 89,378

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 12 7,343
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 8 3,489
Other HMOs (1998) 4 3,854

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 185,423 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 107,041 57.7
Hispanic Whites (1999) 887 0.5
Blacks (1999) 71,827 38.7
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 5,021 2.7
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 647 0.3
Total Hispanics (1999) 1,254 0.7

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 19,305
Avg median household income (1997) 26,141
Persons in poverty (1997) 34,769
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 7
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 16
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 11

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