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HSA# 781 - SANTA BARBARA (SANTA BARBARA), CA-SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA

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*

* UNSTABLE

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


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


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


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


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


Archived page, reproduced from a 2011 copy. It is reference material, not current guidance.