HSA# 546 - POLK (DES MOINES), IA-MARION, IA

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 235.5 54.4 66.5 6.8
Whites 234.0 54.0 66.7 6.8
Blacks 284.2 70.1 67.8 4.9*
Males 315.5 56.6 91.8 10.1
Females 180.4 52.7 49.7 5.3
White Males 314.4 55.4 92.7 10.4
White Females 178.9 52.8 49.5 5.3
Black Males 347.0 98.6* 72.5* 0.0*
Black Females 225.0 49.2* 60.0* 7.6*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 820
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 682
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 138
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 215
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 36
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 31
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 211
Registered Nurses (1990) 4,855
Registered Dieticians (1990) 228

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 16
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 6
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 4
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 5
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 16
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 4
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 10
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 10
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 6
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 12
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 13
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 7
Total admissions (1999) 81,216
Total beds (1999) 2,404
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 49
Inpatient days (1999) 573,588
Outpatient visits (1999) 1974328
Emergency Department visits (1999) 212,910

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 34 113,932
Traditional HMOs (1998) 3 999
IPA HMOs (1998) 8 20,042
Other HMOs (1998) 23 92,891

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 568,419 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 523,529 92.1
Hispanic Whites (1999) 13,133 2.3
Blacks (1999) 19,417 3.4
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 1,558 0.3
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 10,782 1.9
Total Hispanics (1999) 14,740 2.6

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 27,993
Avg median household income (1997) 42,176
Persons in poverty (1997) 48,229
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 2
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 6
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 20

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