HSA# 739 - YAKIMA (YAKIMA), WA-KITTITAS, 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 175.7 75.0 90.8 13.9
Whites 176.4 75.2 91.0 14.0
Blacks 100.0* 104.5* 38.5* 15.6*
Males 233.5 77.7 123.5 13.2
Females 129.4 72.5 64.3 14.3
White Males 234.0 78.0 123.1 13.2
White Females 130.6 72.5 65.2 14.5
Black Males 118.5* 90.9* 60.6* 27.6*
Black Females 83.4* 122.2* 22.3* 0.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 360
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 333
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 27
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 151
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 21
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 9
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 24
Registered Nurses (1990) 1,188
Registered Dieticians (1990) 65

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 5
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 1
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 2
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 5
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 4
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 2
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 3
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 3
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 3
Total admissions (1999) 23,271
Total beds (1999) 611
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 8
Inpatient days (1999) 114,236
Outpatient visits (1999) 532,975
Emergency Department visits (1999) 147,749

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 11 87,976
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 2 5,236
Other HMOs (1998) 9 82,740

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 252,806 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 164,846 65.2
Hispanic Whites (1999) 66,539 26.3
Blacks (1999) 3,855 1.5
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 12,679 5.0
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 4,887 1.9
Total Hispanics (1999) 73,819 29.2

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 20,658
Avg median household income (1997) 31,019
Persons in poverty (1997) 44,166
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 9
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 16
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 15

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