HSA# 790 - VENTURA (OXNARD), 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 182.6 60.5 51.5 6.9
Whites 186.1 60.9 52.3 7.2
Blacks 205.8 60.7* 59.7* 0.0*
Males 220.4 60.5 60.3 7.1
Females 152.8 59.8 44.9 6.7
White Males 225.7 60.5 61.1 7.4
White Females 155.1 60.2 45.9 7.0
Black Males 284.0 113.7* 141.7* 0.0*
Black Females 153.8* 35.3* 16.2* 0.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 1,303
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 1,159
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 144
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 424
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 63
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 40
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 17
Registered Nurses (1990) 4,795
Registered Dieticians (1990) 216

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 8
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 3
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 3
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 6
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 3
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 5
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 3
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 4
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 3
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 3
Total admissions (1999) 61,235
Total beds (1999) 1,407
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 39
Inpatient days (1999) 361,229
Outpatient visits (1999) 833,989
Emergency Department visits (1999) 248,589

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 15 276,450
Traditional HMOs (1998) 2 37,066
IPA HMOs (1998) 2 2,083
Other HMOs (1998) 11 237,301

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 745,063 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 429,685 57.7
Hispanic Whites (1999) 239,294 32.1
Blacks (1999) 18,109 2.4
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 6,477 0.9
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 51,498 6.9
Total Hispanics (1999) 248,754 33.4

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 28,711
Avg median household income (1997) 49,763
Persons in poverty (1997) 75,183
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 5
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 10
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 23

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