HSA# 709 - SACRAMENTO (SACRAMENTO), CA-PLACER, CA

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 207.0 65.6 57.5 8.4
Whites 212.4 64.5 59.0 8.8
Blacks 259.7 96.8 64.9 5.9*
Males 252.3 67.4 72.1 8.7
Females 169.6 63.5 45.5 8.3
White Males 259.3 65.4 73.9 9.1
White Females 174.1 63.2 46.7 8.6
Black Males 289.8 89.6 78.4 4.3*
Black Females 225.1 98.3 52.1 7.2*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 3,743
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 3,092
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 651
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 1,112
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 201
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 79
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 34
Registered Nurses (1990) 10,345
Registered Dieticians (1990) 483

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 14
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) 6
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 3
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 4
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 3
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 5
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 4
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 4
Total admissions (1999) 169,919
Total beds (1999) 3,206
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 44
Inpatient days (1999) 817,421
Outpatient visits (1999) 2557468
Emergency Department visits (1999) 376,524

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 48 1,056,139
Traditional HMOs (1998) 8 473,320
IPA HMOs (1998) 6 10,219
Other HMOs (1998) 34 572,600

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 1,741,002 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 1,164,282 66.9
Hispanic Whites (1999) 244,649 14.1
Blacks (1999) 126,393 7.3
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 23,722 1.4
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 181,956 10.5
Total Hispanics (1999) 272,418 15.6

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 27,122
Avg median household income (1997) 41,307
Persons in poverty (1997) 255,997
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 4
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 6
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 23

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