HSA# 701 - WASHOE (RENO), NV-ORMSBY, NV

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 225.2 61.6 60.2 22.2
Whites 229.0 62.8 61.5 22.3
Blacks 301.7 81.1* 49.0* 33.1*
Males 271.1 62.6 81.2 24.1
Females 181.4 59.7 42.0 20.8
White Males 276.5 63.6 81.8 24.5
White Females 183.5 61.3 43.4 20.7
Black Males 361.6 48.4* 101.1* 47.9*
Black Females 248.3* 88.3* 8.5* 25.9*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 966
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 844
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 122
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 256
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 47
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 33
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 28
Registered Nurses (1990) 2,537
Registered Dieticians (1990) 92

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 11
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 1
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 2
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 7
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 5
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 5
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 4
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 3
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 3
Total admissions (1999) 54,368
Total beds (1999) 1,274
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 34
Inpatient days (1999) 310,861
Outpatient visits (1999) 984,844
Emergency Department visits (1999) 175,644

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 31 88,879
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 7 8,692
Other HMOs (1998) 24 80,187

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 494,332 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 382,532 77.4
Hispanic Whites (1999) 63,569 12.9
Blacks (1999) 10,629 2.2
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 15,128 3.1
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 22,474 4.5
Total Hispanics (1999) 69,289 14.0

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 31,292
Avg median household income (1997) 41,651
Persons in poverty (1997) 47,524
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 5
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 5
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 19

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