Non-profit federation of affiliate state health organizations, together representing more than 13,500 non-profit and for-profit nursing facility, assisted living, developmentally-disabled, and subacute care providers that care for approximately one million elderly and disabled individuals each day.
Professional membership organization providing advocacy on hospital, health-care, and patient issues. Research and Publications section features trend, industry, and economic reports freely available to download in PDF format.
part of the American Hospital Association, this membership group is dedicated to HR professionals in the health care industry. Find valuable information under Resources and Toolkits.
Professional membership group of the American Hospital Association (AHA) with nearly 6,000 members representing risk management, patient safety, insurance, law, finance and other related professions.
Not-for-profit healthcare organization dedicated to executive assistants, administrative assistants, and other professionals who support healthcare leaders.
A nonpartisan organization that facilitates problem-solving exchanges and peer learning among a diverse range of health care stakeholders. Website offers topic pages, project overviews and resources.
A division of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services provides information and resources for Medicare and Medicaid regulations, policies and research.
The Coalition of National Health Education Organizations (CNHEO) was formed in 1972 and represents over 30,000 individuals committed to the advancement of the field of health education.
Nonprofit trade association supporting education, networking, resource and advocacy needs of third-party administrators (TPAs), stop loss insurance carriers, managing general underwriters, audit firms, medical managers, technology organizations, pharmacy benefit managers, brokers/agents, human resource managers and health care consultants.
IAHSS is a professional association with more than 2,000 members who are healthcare security, law enforcement, safety and emergency management leaders.
Non-governmental international organization representing at the international level healthcare national bodies, in particular major healthcare facilities and organizations linked up with provision of healthcare.
An independent, not-for-profit organization, The Joint Commission accredits and certifies nearly 21,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States.
Since 1989, NHA has prepared and awarded more than 500,000 certifications to healthcare students and professionals, providing them with nationally recognized measurements of competency paired with easy-to-use study tools and personalized customer service.
Professional society that improves public health by establishing infection prevention measures and supporting antibiotic stewardship among healthcare providers.
From the CDC, an interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury-related data from the National Center of Health Statistics (NCHS) and the violent death data from NCIPC's National Violent Death Reporting System.
The FDA site contains a great deal of useful data including drug labeling information, new drug approvals, and the online version of the Orange Book which lists therapeutic equivalents (generic drugs than can replace a brand-name drug)
This tool, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/Medicare, allows users to find information on how well hosptials care for patients dealing with certain medical conditions or undergoing certain medical procedures.
The Leapfrog Group's hospital comparison tool allows you to compare overall patient safety ratings and the safety of specified procedures at health care facilities. The tool allows you to search for individual facilities or by city or region.
this tool, provided the U.S. Department Of Health and Human Services' Medicare division, offers detailed information about every Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing home in the country
The agency that administers Medicare and the federal part of Medicaid. Unfortunately, the site is incredibly hard to navigate, and there is no well defined area that deals with PPACA overall (specific sites appear below). The most efficient way to search the site is generally to do a site: search in Google; e.g.: "affordable care act" AND Medicaid site:cms.gov
This Center was established under PPACA to “test innovative payment and service delivery models to reduce program expenditures, while preserving or enhancing the quality of care” for Medicare, Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) beneficiaries.
The agency within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) which "oversees the implementation of the provisions related to private health insurance."
The CMS page on the the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program, which will take effect in FY 2013 for hospital discharges that occur on or after October 1, 2012.