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.
• 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
• Hospitals and Health Networks -- a journal
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
• Materials Management in Health Care--a monthly trade publication.
• National Hospice and Palliative Care  --Information on services and guides for patients, caregivers and on bereavement.
• Patient Safety Network -- "continuously updated, annotated, and carefully selected collection of patient safety news, literature, tools, and resources. "