HSA# 425 - TRAVIS (AUSTIN), TX-WILLIAMSON, 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 177.0 57.7 77.8 19.4
Whites 174.1 57.0 75.9 20.1
Blacks 225.9 67.5 108.0 15.1
Males 226.8 59.1 100.5 23.2
Females 138.8 56.6 59.4 17.5
White Males 224.3 57.8 98.6 24.0
White Females 134.9 56.3 57.1 18.1
Black Males 279.9 79.1 134.2 20.0*
Black Females 191.6 59.9 90.9 12.9*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 2,147
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 1,934
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 213
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 691
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 117
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 48
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 31
Registered Nurses (1990) 4,671
Registered Dieticians (1990) 209

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 13
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 6
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 6
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 13
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 6
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 4
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 10
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 11
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 9
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 4
Total admissions (1999) 94,752
Total beds (1999) 1,845
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 18
Inpatient days (1999) 424,607
Outpatient visits (1999) 1262884
Emergency Department visits (1999) 389,082

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 60 268,489
Traditional HMOs (1998) 9 8,248
IPA HMOs (1998) 23 46,325
Other HMOs (1998) 25 202,328

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 1,083,309 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 686,912 63.4
Hispanic Whites (1999) 244,111 22.5
Blacks (1999) 111,219 10.3
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 5,370 0.5
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 35,697 3.3
Total Hispanics (1999) 261,341 24.1

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 29,535
Avg median household income (1997) 41,544
Persons in poverty (1997) 112,241
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 2
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 8
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 30

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