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" organizations.
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