HSA# 736 - KING (SEATTLE), WA-SNOHOMISH, WA

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 161.6 65.3 49.7 14.1
Whites 164.3 64.9 50.8 14.6
Blacks 177.4 83.0 38.8 8.4*
Males 219.6 65.5 69.0 15.2
Females 118.7 64.4 35.7 13.4
White Males 223.0 65.3 70.4 15.6
White Females 120.7 63.8 36.3 13.8
Black Males 214.3 78.8 52.6 11.3*
Black Females 146.9 83.9 27.7 6.2*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 7,008
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 5,717
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 1,291
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 2,067
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 318
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 138
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 123
Registered Nurses (1990) 18,789
Registered Dieticians (1990) 920

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 25
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 10
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 14
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 14
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 20
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 8
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 13
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 16
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 15
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 18
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 18
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 14
Total admissions (1999) 235,309
Total beds (1999) 4,956
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 96
Inpatient days (1999) 1144410
Outpatient visits (1999) 5700847
Emergency Department visits (1999) 903,747

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 44 718,504
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 12 83,680
Other HMOs (1998) 32 634,824

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 2,685,572 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 2,196,309 81.8
Hispanic Whites (1999) 101,949 3.8
Blacks (1999) 116,749 4.3
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 36,355 1.4
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 234,210 8.7
Total Hispanics (1999) 119,967 4.5

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 35,109
Avg median household income (1997) 49,383
Persons in poverty (1997) 211,255
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 4
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 4
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 28

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