HSA# 435 - ADAMS, MS-CONCORDIA, LA

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 299.2 85.2 144.4 58.9
Whites 280.3 67.0 146.5 54.6
Blacks 329.4 109.6 143.3 66.1
Males 392.2 106.2 193.3 57.8
Females 229.7 71.3 107.9 57.7
White Males 379.9 84.6 206.1 61.7
White Females 203.9 57.7 101.9 48.0
Black Males 424.7 143.3 184.3 55.7
Black Females 264.2 86.6 115.0 70.7

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 90
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 84
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 6
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 36
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 9
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 4
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 0
Registered Nurses (1990) 419
Registered Dieticians (1990) 49

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 5
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 0
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 0
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 0
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 2
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 1
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 0
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 1
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 1
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 2
Total admissions (1999) 11,458
Total beds (1999) 332
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 3
Inpatient days (1999) 55,636
Outpatient visits (1999) 92,440
Emergency Department visits (1999) 48,102

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 12 1,956
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 7 1,621
Other HMOs (1998) 5 335

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 77,313 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 37,405 48.4
Hispanic Whites (1999) 297 0.4
Blacks (1999) 39,379 50.9
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 90 0.1
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 142 0.2
Total Hispanics (1999) 442 0.6

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 16,999
Avg median household income (1997) 22,080
Persons in poverty (1997) 19,205
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 11
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 19
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 12

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