HSA# 470 - CALCASIEU (LAKE CHARLES), LA-BEAUREGARD, 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 259.9 60.4 62.7 33.4
Whites 250.4 56.9 64.4 36.0
Blacks 321.3 80.0 55.6 19.2
Males 338.8 61.7 85.2 36.0
Females 199.3 59.3 46.2 31.3
White Males 331.1 58.0 90.3 38.5
White Females 187.9 55.9 45.4 34.1
Black Males 398.7 84.0 61.8 24.5*
Black Females 264.5 76.5 51.0 15.4*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 403
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 354
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 49
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 129
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 36
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 12
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 3
Registered Nurses (1990) 1,459
Registered Dieticians (1990) 41

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 11
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 2
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 3
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 7
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 2
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 3
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 6
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 5
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 5
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 1
Total admissions (1999) 44,704
Total beds (1999) 1,230
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 9
Inpatient days (1999) 218,086
Outpatient visits (1999) 753,226
Emergency Department visits (1999) 184,585

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 20 12,686
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 9 2,661
Other HMOs (1998) 11 10,025

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 304,831 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 225,231 73.9
Hispanic Whites (1999) 6,067 2.0
Blacks (1999) 69,563 22.8
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 1,051 0.3
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 2,919 1.0
Total Hispanics (1999) 7,223 2.4

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 20,503
Avg median household income (1997) 32,284
Persons in poverty (1997) 44,373
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 5
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 14
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 13

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