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HSA# 766 - ALAMEDA (OAKLAND), CA-CONTRA COSTA, CA

HSA# 766 - ALAMEDA (OAKLAND), CA-CONTRA COSTA, 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 195.7 69.1 58.9 9.2
Whites 196.2 64.5 59.6 9.4
Blacks 250.2 93.1 69.7 10.5
Males 243.0 69.8 75.2 8.4
Females 159.3 67.5 46.8 9.4
White Males 246.1 64.1 77.6 8.3
White Females 157.6 63.5 46.2 9.6
Black Males 290.9 89.2 78.4 10.7
Black Females 217.7 94.7 62.5 10.2

* UNSTABLE

Health-Care Providers
Number
Total MDs (1999) 5,040
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 4,334
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 706
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 1,621
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 280
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 100
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 19
Registered Nurses (1990) 15,817
Registered Dieticians (1990) 708


Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
Number
Hospitals (1999) 19
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 5
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 3
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 4
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 9
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 2
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 6
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 7
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 7
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 7
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 6
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 6
Total admissions (1999) 214,203
Total beds (1999) 4,681
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 41
Inpatient days (1999) 1158952
Outpatient visits (1999) 3093060
Emergency Department visits (1999) 631,500


HMOs and HMO Membership
Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 30 1,246,962
Traditional HMOs (1998) 4 761,778
IPA HMOs (1998) 6 9,883
Other HMOs (1998) 20 475,301


Demographics
Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 2,348,723 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 1,217,312 51.8
Hispanic Whites (1999) 354,538 15.1
Blacks (1999) 359,042 15.3
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 18,169 0.8
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 399,662 17.0
Total Hispanics (1999) 403,651 17.2


Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 33,670
Avg median household income (1997) 49,767
Persons in poverty (1997) 244,916
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 3
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 6
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 30


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