HSA# 689 - MULTNOMAH (PORTLAND), OR-CLACKAMAS, OR

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 169.2 71.6 54.1 18.6
Whites 170.6 70.8 54.3 18.8
Blacks 204.9 101.9 63.4 13.7*
Males 221.3 72.1 71.1 20.3
Females 129.9 70.6 41.3 17.4
White Males 223.8 71.1 71.3 20.5
White Females 130.6 69.8 41.5 17.6
Black Males 234.8 130.0 73.5 16.3*
Black Females 172.5 85.4 55.2 12.2*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 4,424
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 3,637
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 787
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 1,295
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 244
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 100
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 122
Registered Nurses (1990) 13,906
Registered Dieticians (1990) 486

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 18
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 5
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 10
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 10
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 16
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 7
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 14
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 12
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 14
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 13
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 16
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 14
Total admissions (1999) 193,631
Total beds (1999) 3,586
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 69
Inpatient days (1999) 858,709
Outpatient visits (1999) 4036601
Emergency Department visits (1999) 495,067

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 64 861,071
Traditional HMOs (1998) 7 335,359
IPA HMOs (1998) 14 166,919
Other HMOs (1998) 43 358,793

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 1,893,529 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 1,644,373 86.8
Hispanic Whites (1999) 85,632 4.5
Blacks (1999) 56,503 3.0
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 18,796 1.0
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 88,225 4.7
Total Hispanics (1999) 96,652 5.1

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 29,208
Avg median household income (1997) 44,053
Persons in poverty (1997) 175,518
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 5
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 5
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 23

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