HSA# 452 - BELL (KILLEEN), TX-MILAM, 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 255.3 39.8 87.2 41.4
Whites 255.7 39.1 86.4 41.0
Blacks 273.7 44.1 102.9 52.1
Males 321.5 39.9 112.7 42.0
Females 205.4 37.7 67.9 41.4
White Males 326.8 38.0 113.3 43.4
White Females 201.4 37.5 65.7 39.7
Black Males 278.7 59.5* 116.2 26.7*
Black Females 263.8 33.4* 91.8 68.4

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 711
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 498
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 213
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 176
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 42
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 17
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 31
Registered Nurses (1990) 1,925
Registered Dieticians (1990) 109

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 8
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 2
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) 6
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 5
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 3
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 4
Total admissions (1999) 61,590
Total beds (1999) 2,879
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 19
Inpatient days (1999) 709,974
Outpatient visits (1999) 2313693
Emergency Department visits (1999) 235,590

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 24 98,961
Traditional HMOs (1998) 7 78,377
IPA HMOs (1998) 8 6,961
Other HMOs (1998) 9 13,623

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 338,318 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 210,253 62.1
Hispanic Whites (1999) 48,908 14.5
Blacks (1999) 62,894 18.6
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 2,214 0.7
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 14,049 4.2
Total Hispanics (1999) 56,272 16.6

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 20,699
Avg median household income (1997) 31,301
Persons in poverty (1997) 48,471
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 3
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 9
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 15

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