HSA# 781 - SANTA BARBARA (SANTA BARBARA), CA-SAN LUIS OBISPO, 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 182.4 60.3 50.3 11.1
Whites 185.0 60.5 51.0 11.3
Blacks 286.7 69.2* 68.5* 23.8*
Males 225.1 60.9 67.6 15.2
Females 145.7 59.2 36.0 8.6
White Males 229.3 61.0 68.8 15.7
White Females 147.4 59.3 36.6 8.8
Black Males 255.6 30.5* 80.8* 23.8*
Black Females 303.7 99.9* 55.6* 23.3*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 1,459
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 1,297
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 162
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 447
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 55
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 39
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 16
Registered Nurses (1990) 3,663
Registered Dieticians (1990) 269

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 12
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 3
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 5
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 7
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 2
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 3
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 5
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 5
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 3
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 1
Total admissions (1999) 56,242
Total beds (1999) 1,372
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 41
Inpatient days (1999) 272,063
Outpatient visits (1999) 601,360
Emergency Department visits (1999) 164,221

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 22 180,015
Traditional HMOs (1998) 4 311
IPA HMOs (1998) 2 2,077
Other HMOs (1998) 16 177,627

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 628,024 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 407,686 64.9
Hispanic Whites (1999) 161,341 25.7
Blacks (1999) 18,693 3.0
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 7,614 1.2
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 32,690 5.2
Total Hispanics (1999) 173,260 27.6

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 27,230
Avg median household income (1997) 39,615
Persons in poverty (1997) 84,317
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 4
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 8
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 25

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