HSA# 723 - LOS ANGELES (LOS ANGELES), CA-ORANGE, 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 232.6 56.2 66.5 7.5
Whites 234.5 54.3 66.9 7.6
Blacks 310.0 76.2 87.9 9.2
Males 289.6 56.9 85.6 8.3
Females 189.5 54.8 53.0 7.0
White Males 294.0 54.4 87.5 8.6
White Females 189.5 53.3 52.4 7.1
Black Males 361.4 76.7 94.4 8.4
Black Females 268.2 75.2 81.8 9.3

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 27,978
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 22,797
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 5,181
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 7,865
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 1,663
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 832
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 392
Registered Nurses (1990) 70,016
Registered Dieticians (1990) 3,336

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 128
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 52
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 42
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 47
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 75
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 36
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 62
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 63
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 38
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 61
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 49
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 46
Total admissions (1999) 1258222
Total beds (1999) 30,245
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 621
Inpatient days (1999) 7048796
Outpatient visits (1999) 15212295
Emergency Department visits (1999) 3252936

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 41 5,438,577
Traditional HMOs (1998) 5 1,619,006
IPA HMOs (1998) 4 216,469
Other HMOs (1998) 32 3,603,102

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 12,090,937 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 4,642,269 38.4
Hispanic Whites (1999) 4,656,433 38.5
Blacks (1999) 1,094,808 9.1
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 72,398 0.6
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 1,625,029 13.4
Total Hispanics (1999) 4,943,114 40.9

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 28,090
Avg median household income (1997) 39,442
Persons in poverty (1997) 2186275
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 5
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 14
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 24

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