HSA# 708 - SALT LAKE (SALT LAKE CITY), UT-UINTAH, 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 135.3 59.6 55.4 25.8
Whites 136.7 59.6 55.9 26.1
Blacks 78.0* 99.7* 31.6* 8.6*
Males 182.5 59.6 68.1 24.8
Females 98.9 58.0 45.0 26.0
White Males 184.1 60.2 68.5 25.1
White Females 100.2 57.7 45.6 26.3
Black Males 42.4* 67.0* 9.6* 0.0*
Black Females 101.1* 126.1* 50.0* 16.7*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 2,410
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 1,837
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 573
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 575
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 122
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 58
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 15
Registered Nurses (1990) 5,131
Registered Dieticians (1990) 339

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 13
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 5
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 6
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 6
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 10
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 5
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 6
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 8
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 9
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 9
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 6
Total admissions (1999) 92,771
Total beds (1999) 1,897
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 77
Inpatient days (1999) 452,756
Outpatient visits (1999) 2390522
Emergency Department visits (1999) 283,787

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 29 359,928
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 23 258,781
Other HMOs (1998) 6 101,147

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 968,221 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 835,534 86.3
Hispanic Whites (1999) 77,679 8.0
Blacks (1999) 10,324 1.1
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 12,154 1.3
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 32,530 3.4
Total Hispanics (1999) 84,177 8.7

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 25,674
Avg median household income (1997) 43,893
Persons in poverty (1997) 90,247
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 4
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 3
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 23

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