HSA# 718 - FRESNO (FRESNO), CA-KINGS, 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 211.1 68.5 79.9 13.9
Whites 217.0 68.9 81.9 14.0
Blacks 273.5 69.5 116.0 18.0*
Males 263.5 69.7 96.7 12.0
Females 167.3 67.0 65.3 14.9
White Males 273.5 69.2 100.3 11.9
White Females 170.2 67.9 66.1 15.0
Black Males 308.4 68.4 119.1 17.3*
Black Females 242.9 69.9 112.5 18.5*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 1,466
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 1,257
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 209
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 514
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 84
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 32
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 18
Registered Nurses (1990) 4,971
Registered Dieticians (1990) 325

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 18
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 2
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 3
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 9
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 2
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 4
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 9
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 5
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 7
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 6
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 5
Total admissions (1999) 118,817
Total beds (1999) 2,434
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 8
Inpatient days (1999) 572,821
Outpatient visits (1999) 2563958
Emergency Department visits (1999) 365,502

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 29 409,915
Traditional HMOs (1998) 7 127,459
IPA HMOs (1998) 2 6,646
Other HMOs (1998) 20 275,810

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 1,003,070 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 434,911 43.4
Hispanic Whites (1999) 408,191 40.7
Blacks (1999) 56,516 5.6
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 13,628 1.4
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 89,824 9.0
Total Hispanics (1999) 431,402 43.0

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 19,397
Avg median household income (1997) 31,372
Persons in poverty (1997) 241,079
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 13
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 19
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 15

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