HSA# 688 - DENVER (DENVER), CO-JEFFERSON, CO

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 155.7 53.7 58.4 22.6
Whites 155.8 53.0 58.9 23.0
Blacks 194.9 74.9 61.5 20.1
Males 203.6 52.6 76.8 23.8
Females 120.9 53.8 45.3 21.9
White Males 205.1 52.6 78.0 24.4
White Females 120.1 52.8 45.5 22.2
Black Males 219.3 60.5 63.2 17.2*
Black Females 172.2 81.0 57.3 21.4

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 5,165
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 4,084
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 1,081
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 1,344
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 309
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 123
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 181
Registered Nurses (1990) 13,622
Registered Dieticians (1990) 551

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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) 7
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 8
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 10
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 6
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 9
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 6
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 7
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 10
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 6
Total admissions (1999) 198,473
Total beds (1999) 4,307
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 112
Inpatient days (1999) 937,092
Outpatient visits (1999) 2687576
Emergency Department visits (1999) 585,122

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 96 810,817
Traditional HMOs (1998) 11 328,339
IPA HMOs (1998) 35 151,851
Other HMOs (1998) 50 330,627

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 2,056,691 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 1,578,976 76.8
Hispanic Whites (1999) 275,266 13.4
Blacks (1999) 123,627 6.0
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 17,287 0.8
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 61,535 3.0
Total Hispanics (1999) 298,358 14.5

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 33,848
Avg median household income (1997) 48,265
Persons in poverty (1997) 180,453
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 2
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 4
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 29

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