Table 9.
Racial and ethnic composition of the Baylor Health Care System (BHCS) patient population, the patient population reported by the Dallas–Fort Worth Hospital Council (DFWHC) for area hospitals, and the Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex∗
| Race/ethnicity | BHCS patients N = 292,065) n (%) | DFWHC (N = 660,129) n (%) | DFW counties N = 5,221,801) n (%) |
| Race/ethnicity | |||
| Race (non-Hispanic) | |||
| White alone | 184,541 (63.2%) | 398,991 (60.4%) | 3,096,104 (59.3%) |
| Black or African American alone | 46,913 (16.1%) | 101,818 (15.4%) | 711,704 (13.6%) |
| American Indian and Alaska Native alone | 610 (0.2%) | 538 (0.1%) | 21,419 (0.4%) |
| American Indian alone | 21,170 | ||
| Alaska Native alone | 220 | ||
| Asian alone | 4,856 (1.7%) | 12,170 (1.8%) | 193,742 (3.7%) |
| Asian Indian alone | 49,669 | ||
| Bangladeshi alone | 1,192 | ||
| Cambodian alone | 3,310 | ||
| Chinese alone | 33,559 | ||
| Filipino alone | 13,196 | ||
| Hmong alone | 277 | ||
| Indonesian alone | 656 | ||
| Japanese alone | 5,236 | ||
| Korean alone | 18,123 | ||
| Laotian alone | 6,642 | ||
| Malaysian alone | 266 | ||
| Pakistani alone | 5,905 | ||
| Sri Lankan alone | 379 | ||
| Thai alone | 2,843 | ||
| Vietnamese alone | 47,090 | ||
| Other specified Asian alone | 590 | ||
| Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific | |||
| Islander alone | (390 (0.1%) | † | 3,705 (0.1%) |
| Polynesian alone | 2,661 | ||
| Native Hawaiian alone | 823 | ||
| Samoan alone | 645 | ||
| Tongan alone | 1,032 | ||
| Micronesian alone | 983 | ||
| Guamanian or Chamorro alone | 691 | ||
| Some other race alone | 14,619 (5.0%) | 23,364 (3.5%) | 5,519 (0.1%) |
| Two or more races | 69,258 (1.3%) | ||
| Hispanic/Latino (of any race) | 40,136 (13.7%) | 123,236 (18.7%) | 1,120,350 (21.5%) |
| Mexican | 889,879 (17.0%) | ||
| Puerto Rican | 16,191 (0.3%) | ||
| Cuban | 7,072 (0.1%) | ||
| Other Hispanic or Latino | 207,208 (4.0%) |
∗BHCS data are from inpatient administrative data for patients seen between July 1, 2005, and December 31, 2005, at the following BHCS hospitals: Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, Baylor Medical Center at Irving, Baylor Medical Center at Garland, Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine, Baylor Medical Center at Waxahachie, Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano, Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth, and Baylor Medical Center at Southwest Fort Worth. DFWHC data are for January 1 to December 31, 2004. DFW metroplex counties are defined by the US Census Bureau as a Metropolitan Statistical Area (updated November 2004) and include the following counties: Collin, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant, and Wise.
†Combined with Asian.