HSA# 707 - CLARK (LAS VEGAS), NV-WASHINGTON, UT

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 199.9 63.5 45.4 23.2
Whites 200.8 63.0 46.1 23.5
Blacks 221.7 73.0 40.8 22.3
Males 255.6 62.4 57.8 23.8
Females 148.9 63.7 34.4 22.6
White Males 256.7 61.7 59.4 24.3
White Females 148.6 63.0 34.2 22.7
Black Males 281.4 76.9 47.7 23.8*
Black Females 172.0 71.4 35.1 21.6

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 2,033
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 1,839
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 194
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 609
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 149
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 82
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 91
Registered Nurses (1990) 4,199
Registered Dieticians (1990) 212

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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) 7
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 9
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 2
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 7
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 10
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 5
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 6
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 7
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 5
Total admissions (1999) 159,668
Total beds (1999) 2,828
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 53
Inpatient days (1999) 787,032
Outpatient visits (1999) 2064081
Emergency Department visits (1999) 435,126

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 26 385,293
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 14 93,164
Other HMOs (1998) 12 292,129

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 1,349,541 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 935,772 69.3
Hispanic Whites (1999) 203,898 15.1
Blacks (1999) 128,865 9.5
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 15,182 1.1
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 65,824 4.9
Total Hispanics (1999) 225,237 16.7

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 27,965
Avg median household income (1997) 39,099
Persons in poverty (1997) 146,124
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 4
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 6
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 14

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