HSA# 413 - JEFFERSON (BEAUMONT), TX-ORANGE, TX

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 238.8 65.5 130.0 24.8
Whites 232.5 59.8 122.7 25.9
Blacks 276.0 94.3 171.1 20.2
Males 292.7 64.5 168.7 30.3
Females 196.6 65.6 102.0 21.7
White Males 287.2 56.0 162.3 31.4
White Females 189.3 61.6 93.5 22.9
Black Males 329.5 108.8 207.7 26.6
Black Females 236.7 85.5 146.7 16.2

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 626
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 568
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 58
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 210
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 34
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 22
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 45
Registered Nurses (1990) 2,550
Registered Dieticians (1990) 137

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 10
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 4
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 4
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 10
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 4
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 7
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 8
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 10
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 4
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 6
Total admissions (1999) 59,220
Total beds (1999) 1,883
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 27
Inpatient days (1999) 293,370
Outpatient visits (1999) 597,209
Emergency Department visits (1999) 215,272

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 38 38,940
Traditional HMOs (1998) 5 36
IPA HMOs (1998) 18 34,624
Other HMOs (1998) 12 3,381

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 444,591 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 306,337 68.9
Hispanic Whites (1999) 20,332 4.6
Blacks (1999) 107,821 24.3
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 1,300 0.3
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 8,801 2.0
Total Hispanics (1999) 23,472 5.3

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 22,177
Avg median household income (1997) 32,608
Persons in poverty (1997) 78,163
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 9
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 11
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 13

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