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HSA# 688 - DENVER (DENVER), CO-JEFFERSON, CO

HSA# 688 - DENVER (DENVER), CO-JEFFERSON, 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
Asthma
Overall 2.3
Whites 2.2
Blacks 8.0*
Males 1.7
Females 2.8
White Males 1.6
White Females 2.7
Black Males 6.8*
Black Females 8.2*

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Health-Care Providers
Number
Total MDs (1999) 5,165
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 4,084
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 1,081
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 1,717
MDs with Pediatric Specialty 386
MDs with Allergy & Immunology Specialty 54
MDs with Pulmonary Disease Specialty 83

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
Number
Hospitals (1999) 16
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 9
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 10
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 6
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 3
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 7
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 10
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 6
Hospital Admissions 198,473
Hospital beds 4,307

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HMOs and HMO Membership
Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 96 810,817
Traditional HMOs (1998) 11 328,339
IPA HMOs (1998) 35 151,851
Other HMOs (1998) 50 330,627

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Demographics
Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 2,056,691 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 1,578,976 76.8
Hispanic Whites (1999) 275,266 13.4
Blacks (1999) 123,627 6.0
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 17,287 0.8
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 61,535 3.0
Total Hispanics (1999) 298,358 14.5

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 33,848
Avg median household income (1997) 48,265
Persons in poverty (1997) 180,453
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 4
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 29
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 2

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Archived page, reproduced from a 2005 copy. It is reference material, not current guidance.