HSA# 671 - ATCHISON, KS

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 183.2 55.5 99.3 21.6*
Whites 185.9 53.1 105.3 19.5*
Blacks 144.0* 104.1* 0.0* 59.2*
Males 233.8 66.0* 140.1 16.7*
Females 145.1 49.7 71.3 24.7*
White Males 224.7 64.2* 147.5 13.3*
White Females 154.7 47.4* 76.0 23.7*
Black Males 434.0* 98.0* 0.0* 82.5*
Black Females 0.0* 93.3* 0.0* 44.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 18
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 17
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 1
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 8
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 0
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 1
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 0
Registered Nurses (1990) 108
Registered Dieticians (1990) 0

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 1
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 0
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 0
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 0
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 0
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 0
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 1
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 0
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 0
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 0
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 0
Total admissions (1999) 1,954
Total beds (1999) 77
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 0
Inpatient days (1999) 18,194
Outpatient visits (1999) 33,423
Emergency Department visits (1999) 7,812

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 7 996
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 4 714
Other HMOs (1998) 3 282

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 16,856 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 15,156 89.9
Hispanic Whites (1999) 426 2.5
Blacks (1999) 1,036 6.1
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 87 0.5
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 151 0.9
Total Hispanics (1999) 503 3.0

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 19,386
Avg median household income (1997) 32,515
Persons in poverty (1997) 2,367
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 4
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 11
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 13

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