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HSA# 795 - BOULDER (BOULDER), CO

HSA# 795 - BOULDER (BOULDER), CO

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 114.8 58.4 38.6 24.5
Whites 115.8 58.6 39.1 24.7
Blacks 186.9* 106.8* 44.3* 96.9*
Males 148.7 54.5 51.6 31.8
Females 90.7 60.4 29.5 21.5
White Males 150.3 55.2 52.2 31.8
White Females 91.4 60.4 30.0 21.8
Black Males 164.6* 0.0* 103.2* 155.1*
Black Females 195.0* 195.0* 0.0* 0.0*

* UNSTABLE

Health-Care Providers
Number
Total MDs (1999) 700
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 640
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 60
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 249
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 33
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 7
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 26
Registered Nurses (1990) 1,963
Registered Dieticians (1990) 54


Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
Number
Hospitals (1999) 3
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 1
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 2
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 1
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 1
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 2
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 1
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 2
Total admissions (1999) 19,294
Total beds (1999) 377
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 0
Inpatient days (1999) 77,223
Outpatient visits (1999) 509,412
Emergency Department visits (1999) 87,626


HMOs and HMO Membership
Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 17 187,762
Traditional HMOs (1998) 1 26,592
IPA HMOs (1998) 6 7,385
Other HMOs (1998) 10 153,785


Demographics
Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 273,112 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 238,305 87.3
Hispanic Whites (1999) 21,420 7.8
Blacks (1999) 2,791 1.0
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 1,745 0.6
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 8,851 3.2
Total Hispanics (1999) 22,621 8.3


Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 36,071
Avg median household income (1997) 50,245
Persons in poverty (1997) 20,591
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 3
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 3
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 42


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