Profession	Number	Percentage	Ratio Health
		55 & older	Care Professionals
			to Population
Registered Nurses	70,467	20.4	11 per 100,000
Licensed Practical Nurses	22,855	17.4	375 per 100,000
Nurse Midwives	40	12.5	none noted
APN-Clinical Nurse Specialist	60	13.3	1 per 100,000
APN-Certified Nurse Midwives	31	6.5	none noted
APN-Nurse Practitioners	629	7.6	11 per 100,000
Dental Hygienists	2,876	6.3	46 per 100,000
Dentists	3,053	30.1	51 per 100,000
Dietitians	993	13.7	16 per 100,000
Occupational Therapists	1,892	4.2	34 per 100,000
Occupational Therapy Assistant	519	4.4	7 per 100,000
Pharmacists	6,530	21.9	95 per 100,000
Physical Therapist	3,337	4.6	44 per 100,000
Physical Therapy Assistant	1,443	1	18 per 100,000
Physicians	16,767	25.6	214 per 100,000
Physicians Assistants	185	3.2	3 per 100,000
Radiologic Technologists	9,188	not specified	none noted
Respiratory Care Practitioner	3,542	5.8	62 per 100,000
Profession	Number	Percentage	Ratio Health
		55 & older	Care Professionals
			to Population
Audiologists	319	5	5 per 100,000
Chiropractors	905	16.1	14 per 100,000
Clinical Social Workers	3,399	26.5	84 per 100,000
Emergency Service Personnel	23,323	not specified	404 per 100,000
Marriage & Family Therapists	1,205	33.5	19 per 100,000
Optometrists	1,093	17.9	17 per 100,000
Podiatrists	353	16.4	4 per 100,000
Psychologists	1,327	28.3	18 per 100,000
Social Workers	3,148	15.9	51 per 100,000
Speech Pathologists	1,575	10.1	29 per 100,000
Data provided by the Indiana Health
Care Professional Development
Commission 1999 Annual Report
Indiana State Department of Health