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Health Links


Welcome to the VNA Health Links Library!
On this page, you will find a variety of reference links separated into the following categories:
Companies and Websites of Interest
Disaster Preparedness
Government/Regulatory Agencies
Health Care Databases and Search Engines
Home Care & Hospice




Companies and Websites of Interest
CTU: Cover the Uninsured

VNAA: Visiting Nurse Association of America
VNASM: Visiting Nurse Association of Southeast Michigan


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Government/Regulatory Agencies
Centers for Disease Control
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Health and Human Services: Department of U.S. government
HIMSS: The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
Internet Healthcare Coalition

JCAHO: Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
Medicare
Michigan Government Home Page
Michigan In Brief
Michigan Legislature
NCQA: The National Committee for Quality Assurance
UGS Medicare: United Government Services
US National Library of Medicine

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Health Care Databases and Search Engines
Behavorial Health World for Professionals: the on-line service that is designed and developed exclusively for you the behavioral health professional and your clients/patients. The site encourages fellowship and sharing of experiences.
Combined Health Information Database (CHID): Produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government: titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources
Healthfinder: U.S. government's effort to help sort out health-related sites. Contains the latest medical data from government agencies and dozens of university and nonprofit health organizations. It offers many links, carries data medically reviewed for accuracy, and lets users search by letter of the alphabet and by subject, or take a guided tour of available information on a specific illness.
MEDLINEplus Health Information: a service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Mental Health. Site contains health topics, drug information, directories, dictionaries and current health news.
National Institute of Health
National Library of Medicine

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Home Care and Hospice
Visiting Nurse Association of Southeast Michigan
VNA Hospice
Finding Our Way--Living with Dying in America:
This is an on-line class offering people an opportunity to learn from 15 articles created by a distinguished group of authors and editors nationwide.
Michigan Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
NAHC (National Association for Home Care)
: This is the virtual headquarters of the National Association for Home Care
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization



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Outcomes and Quality Improvement
Home Health Compare
NCQA: The National Committee for Quality Assurance
Outcomes
: Medical Outcomes Trust's list describing current outcomes measurement/benchmarking initiatives

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If you would like to suggest another health-related Web site to add to our list, please e-mail your ideas to vna@vna.org. Be sure to include the name of the site and the Web address. Also, as much as we try to keep this list current, organizations may change their Web addresses without our knowledge. If you find a link that does not work, please let us know.
Note: We cannot accept links to "for profit" or
ganizations.