Career Opportunity in Optometry in Florida

In 1998, a total of 3,758 physicians practiced medicine in Broward County, with an average of 399 persons per physician. There were 20 acute care hospitals in the county in 1998 with a total of 5,538 hospital beds, an average of 3.7 beds per 1,000 residents. The county also had 32 nursing homes (the highest number of any county in the state with the exceptions of Palm Beach, Dade and Pinellas with a total capacity of 3,991 beds ("State and County Data," 1999, pp. 42, 43).

In 1995, there were a total of 1,583 physician clinics with a total of more than 13,300 employees located throughout Broward County. The county also had 98 osteopathic offices, 652 dental offices, 261 chiropractic offices, 101 podiatric offices and 97 optometric offices. The following chart illustrates the number of various types of offices and total number

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also have a higher rate of insurance coverage. In 1996, those under aged 65 with incomes under the federal poverty level showed an uninsured rate of more than one-third (36.8 percent) while that rate drops as the income rises to twice the federal poverty level (to 35 percent) and to four times the federal poverty level (to 20.6 percent). In addition, those with full-time employment also have the lowest rates of uninsurance, with an uninsured rate of 20.4 percent for full-time, full-year employment. Those individuals who worked part-time had an uninsured rate of 32.9 percent in 1996, and those who worked only part of the year had an uninsured rate of 34.6 percent during 1996 (Health Care System Datasource, 1999, p. 100). Florida's state-wide level of uninsured persons of 18.9 percent is higher than the national average for 1996; the state ranked seventh in the nation for uninsured individuals. The state ranked 12th in the nation in terms of the percentage of population covered by public insurance coverage (31.6 percent versus a national average of 25.9 percent), which is not surprising given the large number of older residents in the state (Health Care System Datasource, 1999, p. 101). In 1996, Medicaid paid more than $5.9
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