HSA# 807 - KERN (BAKERSFIELD), 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 288.1 61.9 77.5 11.4
Whites 295.0 62.9 80.0 12.0
Blacks 341.0 71.3 89.4 8.8*
Males 327.9 54.7 94.0 13.4
Females 248.9 65.5 62.6 10.1
White Males 340.7 55.0 100.8 14.7
White Females 252.1 66.4 62.3 10.5
Black Males 351.7 76.6 74.4 6.3*
Black Females 321.7 65.9 100.5 10.7*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 812
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 677
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 135
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 269
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 70
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 20
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 14
Registered Nurses (1990) 2,202
Registered Dieticians (1990) 101

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 10
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 1
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 1
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 5
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 3
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 4
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 2
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 2
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 3
Total admissions (1999) 53,592
Total beds (1999) 1,561
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 41
Inpatient days (1999) 310,283
Outpatient visits (1999) 663,110
Emergency Department visits (1999) 143,300

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 12 194,067
Traditional HMOs (1998) 2 71,492
IPA HMOs (1998) 1 2,077
Other HMOs (1998) 9 120,498

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 642,495 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 346,156 53.9
Hispanic Whites (1999) 212,791 33.1
Blacks (1999) 42,337 6.6
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 11,270 1.8
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 29,941 4.7
Total Hispanics (1999) 230,961 35.9

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 19,643
Avg median household income (1997) 32,359
Persons in poverty (1997) 128,669
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 11
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 15
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 13

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