HSA# 432 - PULASKI (LITTLE ROCK), AR-SALINE, AR

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 184.3 95.0 95.2 36.7
Whites 178.2 90.4 91.6 37.7
Blacks 230.7 130.2 123.5 31.6
Males 241.8 96.4 134.5 46.2
Females 143.2 92.4 67.1 31.0
White Males 237.5 89.5 132.0 46.5
White Females 135.1 89.0 62.5 32.5
Black Males 279.7 151.9 157.5 47.1
Black Females 198.0 116.5 101.1 22.6

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 2,024
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 1,426
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 598
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 410
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 89
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 54
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 13
Registered Nurses (1990) 5,415
Registered Dieticians (1990) 270

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 12
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 8
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 4
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 9
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 11
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 3
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 7
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 9
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 5
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 7
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 6
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 5
Total admissions (1999) 114,852
Total beds (1999) 3,140
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 152
Inpatient days (1999) 805,980
Outpatient visits (1999) 1380323
Emergency Department visits (1999) 241,515

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 44 154,759
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 30 150,910
Other HMOs (1998) 14 3,849

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 629,553 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 488,443 77.6
Hispanic Whites (1999) 10,691 1.7
Blacks (1999) 123,377 19.6
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 2,166 0.3
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 4,876 0.8
Total Hispanics (1999) 11,928 1.9

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 25,186
Avg median household income (1997) 34,772
Persons in poverty (1997) 83,647
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 3
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 10
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 19

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