Links/Resources

Organizations

  • American Cancer Society (National) -- www.cancer.org
    Information on specific cancers, patient and family information, guidelines for cancer detection and prevention, alternative therapies, breast cancer network, and programs and events.
  • American Diabetes Association -- www.diabetes.org
    Topics covered here include: What is diabetes?, Living with diabetes, and information for teachers and child-care providers. Also available is information on the ADA's research program and legislative information.
  • American Heart Association -- www.amhrt.org
    Access to consumer publications and research information about heart disease and related topics. Includes a search engine.
  • American Medical Association -- www.ama-assn.org
    Home page of the American Medical Association, with access to recent articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and other publications.
  • American Public Health Association -- www.apha.org
    The association's web site contains information on membership, conferences, and legislative updates. Users can access abstracts from recent issues of the American Journal of Public Health.
  • Healthfinder -- www.healthfinder.org
    A consumer health and human services information web site from the United States government that leads you to selected on-line publications, databases, web sites, support/self-help groups, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations that provide reliable information to the public.
  • International Organization for Standardization -- www.iso.org
    The source of ISO 9000 and more than 13 000 International Standards for business, government and society.
  • JCAHO -- www.jcaho.org The Joint Commission evaluates and accredits more than 15,000 healthcare organizations in the United States, including more than 5,200 hospitals and nearly 10,000 other healthcare organizations.
  • Manage Your Diabetes -- www.healthline.com/adamcontent/diabetes
    Resources and information on diabetes.
  • National Association for Home Care -- www.nahc.org
    Includes information on Medicare home health services, meetings/conferences, publications, legislative/regulatory news, consumer information, and links to state associations. The association has an accessible database of over 28,100 home care and hospice agencies.
  • National Quality Forum -- www.qualityforum.org
    The National Quality Forum is a voluntary consensus standards-setting body, created in 1999 as a unique public-private partnership.
  • National Stroke Association -- www.stroke.org
    Research and other information about strokes including prevention advice. Includes links to products and services for survivors and caregivers.
  • Senior Sites -- www.seniorsites.com
    This site includes information to use when selecting a non-profit housing facility, a search engine for a non-profit housing community database, directory of national and state senior housing associations, and other information on senior housing resources.
  • Seniors Blue Book -- www.seniorsbluebook.com
    The Seniors Blue Book and SeniorsBlueBook.com provides seniors, caregivers and senior professionals a comprehensive source of services, senior housing options, resources and information that enrich the lives of our elder population while affording those businesses and individuals serving that population a unique medium to present their products and services.
  • Think About It Colorado -- www.thinkaboutitcolorado.org
    Think About It Colorado is a public awareness campaign designed to spark a statewide conversation about patient safety and to drive reform in this critical area.

 

 

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