HSA# 495 - DENTON (DENTON), TX-COOKE, 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 238.2 63.2 101.2 18.3
Whites 239.8 64.5 101.8 19.0
Blacks 248.8 57.9* 114.0 5.9*
Males 295.3 67.6 130.0 15.5
Females 193.7 60.3 79.3 19.2
White Males 298.7 69.0 130.9 16.3
White Females 194.3 61.5 79.8 19.9
Black Males 308.6 79.5* 149.3* 0.0*
Black Females 205.1 42.8* 83.8* 8.6*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 397
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 359
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 38
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 165
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 28
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 9
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 34
Registered Nurses (1990) 2,338
Registered Dieticians (1990) 86

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 7
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 0
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 3
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 2
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 7
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 2
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 1
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 4
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 5
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 3
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 1
Total admissions (1999) 32,243
Total beds (1999) 738
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 0
Inpatient days (1999) 140,415
Outpatient visits (1999) 386,414
Emergency Department visits (1999) 124,626

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 34 88,253
Traditional HMOs (1998) 3 9,340
IPA HMOs (1998) 18 55,611
Other HMOs (1998) 13 23,302

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 484,174 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 398,359 82.3
Hispanic Whites (1999) 42,325 8.7
Blacks (1999) 24,041 5.0
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 3,051 0.6
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 16,398 3.4
Total Hispanics (1999) 44,938 9.3

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 26,844
Avg median household income (1997) 49,358
Persons in poverty (1997) 33,151
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 2
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 6
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 29

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