HSA# 789 - TULARE (VISALIA), 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 236.4 77.1 83.6 20.9
Whites 246.1 79.2 87.3 21.8
Blacks 175.4 86.5* 72.5* 7.5*
Males 275.1 79.0 109.9 18.9
Females 200.5 74.8 60.0 22.4
White Males 287.2 81.5 116.6 20.6
White Females 208.1 76.6 61.6 22.8
Black Males 149.9* 122.8* 38.0* 0.0*
Black Females 199.1* 60.6* 109.8* 15.7*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 387
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 356
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 31
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 148
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 30
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 10
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 7
Registered Nurses (1990) 1,241
Registered Dieticians (1990) 60

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 5
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 1
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 1
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 2
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 2
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 4
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 2
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 2
Total admissions (1999) 29,743
Total beds (1999) 634
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 8
Inpatient days (1999) 153,415
Outpatient visits (1999) 572,532
Emergency Department visits (1999) 118,808

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 10 51,627
Traditional HMOs (1998) 3 8,433
IPA HMOs (1998) 1 831
Other HMOs (1998) 6 42,363

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 358,470 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 163,905 45.7
Hispanic Whites (1999) 161,085 44.9
Blacks (1999) 5,992 1.7
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 6,081 1.7
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 21,407 6.0
Total Hispanics (1999) 169,064 47.2

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 18,893
Avg median household income (1997) 27,622
Persons in poverty (1997) 98,816
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 16
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 23
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 12

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