Nursing/Medicine
Healthcare and Hospital Administration

• Agency for Health Care Policy and Research-- access to the Clinical Practice Guidelines, the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, the Medical Treatment Effectiveness Program, Outcomes Research, and the Health Technology Assessment program.
• AHA News
• American Accreditation Health Care Commission--sets standards of care for managed health care. In Iowa, compliance with these standards is mandatory.
• American Association of Health Plans--info on policy, communications, regulation, training, women's health
• American Hospital Association
• American Hospital Directory--look up hospitals and find their general characteristics, services, financial information, utilization statistics
• American Public Health Association
• America's Top Hospitals--from US News and World Report.
• Catholic Health Association of the United States--deals with public policy, long term care, and other issues, and provides daily news and related links.
• Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services-- the resource for Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance initiative. Used to be called the Health Care Financing Administration.
• Disabilities, Aging  and Long Term Care Issues--from the Dept. of Health and Human Services.
• Health Facilities Management -- a journal
• Hospice Net --Information on services and guides for patients, caregivers and on bereavement.
• Hospitals and Health Networks -- a journal
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
• Materials Management in Health Care--a monthly trade publication.
• Medicare: Understanding the Issue -- "providing unbiased and unparalleled research that bridges the gap between American leaders and what the public really thinks about issues ranging from education to foreign policy to immigration to religion and civility in American life."
• Patient Safety Network -- "continuously updated, annotated, and carefully selected collection of patient safety news, literature, tools, and resources. "