HSA# 802 - SANTA CRUZ (SANTA CRUZ), 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 175.9 60.1 57.0 13.9
Whites 176.5 59.4 55.9 14.0
Blacks 151.1* 108.5* 38.7* 0.0*
Males 216.3 58.7 63.5 15.3
Females 142.7 60.8 49.9 12.9
White Males 217.5 58.5 61.0 16.3
White Females 142.7 59.6 49.3 12.7
Black Males 82.4* 0.0* 66.9* 0.0*
Black Females 175.3* 256.6* 0.0* 0.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 496
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 470
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 26
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 178
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 25
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 10
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 10
Registered Nurses (1990) 1,706
Registered Dieticians (1990) 50

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 3
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 0
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 1
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 1
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 2
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 1
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 1
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 0
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 1
Total admissions (1999) 20,143
Total beds (1999) 422
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 0
Inpatient days (1999) 83,957
Outpatient visits (1999) 281,845
Emergency Department visits (1999) 79,553

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 12 56,808
Traditional HMOs (1998) 2 1,116
IPA HMOs (1998) 1 12
Other HMOs (1998) 9 55,680

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 245,201 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 164,523 67.1
Hispanic Whites (1999) 62,254 25.4
Blacks (1999) 3,352 1.4
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 2,373 1.0
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 12,699 5.2
Total Hispanics (1999) 65,822 26.8

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 31,302
Avg median household income (1997) 44,607
Persons in poverty (1997) 31,272
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 6
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 9
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 30

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