HSA# 698 - SPOKANE (SPOKANE), WA-STEVENS, WA

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 174.9 69.1 63.5 11.2
Whites 175.9 69.1 63.6 11.4
Blacks 218.4 86.5* 133.1* 0.0*
Males 238.9 69.1 90.9 11.7
Females 127.3 67.9 43.6 10.6
White Males 241.3 69.8 91.8 11.8
White Females 127.2 67.5 43.1 10.8
Black Males 159.5* 44.1* 74.3* 0.0*
Black Females 252.4* 125.1* 157.4* 0.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 1,009
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 875
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 134
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 326
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 40
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 38
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 17
Registered Nurses (1990) 4,490
Registered Dieticians (1990) 176

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 15
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 3
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 3
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 10
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 2
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 3
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 8
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 6
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 4
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 6
Total admissions (1999) 58,461
Total beds (1999) 1,766
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 59
Inpatient days (1999) 348,251
Outpatient visits (1999) 1286539
Emergency Department visits (1999) 231,815

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 42 207,871
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 7 27,613
Other HMOs (1998) 35 180,258

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 493,659 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 444,756 90.1
Hispanic Whites (1999) 19,423 3.9
Blacks (1999) 7,268 1.5
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 11,089 2.2
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 11,123 2.3
Total Hispanics (1999) 21,014 4.3

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 22,556
Avg median household income (1997) 35,080
Persons in poverty (1997) 62,301
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 6
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 6
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 19

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