HSA# 754 - EL PASO (COLORADO SPRINGS), CO-KIT CARSON, 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 143.4 76.7 42.8 16.4
Whites 144.7 76.5 43.8 16.4
Blacks 160.3 92.9 24.9* 11.7*
Males 188.3 73.4 57.5 18.7
Females 110.8 77.6 32.3 15.1
White Males 191.5 72.5 58.2 18.9
White Females 110.5 78.2 33.4 14.9
Black Males 146.9 85.7* 47.6* 9.8*
Black Females 167.0 83.6* 7.0* 13.5*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 823
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 761
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 62
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 213
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 42
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 25
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 61
Registered Nurses (1990) 2,891
Registered Dieticians (1990) 169

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 7
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 2
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) 4
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 4
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 4
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 2
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 4
Total admissions (1999) 49,297
Total beds (1999) 1,004
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 19
Inpatient days (1999) 222,970
Outpatient visits (1999) 1303067
Emergency Department visits (1999) 207,465

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 27 143,775
Traditional HMOs (1998) 1 25
IPA HMOs (1998) 10 48,311
Other HMOs (1998) 16 95,439

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 536,534 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 425,043 79.2
Hispanic Whites (1999) 49,470 9.2
Blacks (1999) 39,621 7.4
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 4,810 0.9
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 17,590 3.3
Total Hispanics (1999) 56,640 10.6

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 26,102
Avg median household income (1997) 41,871
Persons in poverty (1997) 49,625
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 3
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 4
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 25

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