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List of Helpful Web Sites National Rural Health Association (NRHA) - NRHA is a national membership organization, whose mission is to improve the health and health care of rural Americans and to provide leadership on rural issues through advocacy, communications, education and research. The NRHA is a non-profit association.
Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP)-The ORHP promotes better health care service in rural America. Established in August 1987, Congress charged the Office with informing and advising the Department of Health and Human Services on matters affecting rural hospitals, and health care, coordinating activities within the department that relate to rural health care, and maintaining a national information clearinghouse.
Rural Assistance Center (RAC) - RAC is a national resource on rural health and human services information. Information specialists provide customized assistance, such as web and database searches on rural topics and funding resources, and furnishing relevant publications from the RAC resource library.
Technical Assistance and Services Center (TASC) - TASC is a federally designated resource center funded by the Office of Rural Health Policy supporting FLEX Program implementation.
The National Quality Forum is a private, not-for-profit membership organization created to develop and implement a national strategy for healthcare quality measurement and reporting. The mission of the NQF is to improve American healthcare through endorsement of consensus-based national standards for measurement and public reporting of healthcare performance data that provide meaningful information about whether care is safe, timely, beneficial, patient-centered, equitable and efficient.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement is a not-for-profit organization driving the improvement of health by advancing the quality and value of health care. The IHI provides energy, knowledge, and support for a never-ending campaign to improve health care worldwide. The Institute helps accelerate change in health care cultivating promising concepts for improving patient care and turning those ideas into action.
Chartered in 1970, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) is a nonprofit component of the National Academy of Sciences specifically created for the purpose of providing science-based advice on matters of biomedical science, medicine, and health. The IOM's mission is to serve as adviser to the nation to improve health. The Institute provides unbiased, evidence-based, and authoritative information and advice concerning health and science policy to policy-makers, professionals, leaders in every sector of society, and the public at large. The 1999 publication of To Err Is Human, Building a Safer Health System and the Quality Chasm Series has been credited with bring the quality of the healthcare system to the attention of the public.
Additional Resources for Performance Improvement: Internet Websites
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) www.ahcpr.gov education, grant opportunities
American College of Cardiology www.acc.org heart care treatment guidelines
American Hospital Association www.aha.org advocacy, public reporting, ed
American Lung Association www.lungusa.org pneumonia treatment guidelines
American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM) www.ashrm.org risk management
American Society for Quality (ASQ) www.asq.org quality management ed, certification
Assoc. for Professionals in Infection Control & Prevention www.apic.org infection control, ICP certification
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) www.cdc.gov infection control, surveillance
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services www.cms.hhs.gov regulatory requirements & news
Federal Register www.gpaccess.gov/fr/index.html federal code
Healthcare Compliance Company www.hcpro.com newsletters, education www.hcpro.com/credentialing-privileging/ Credentialing & Privileging
Healthcare Quality Certification Board www.cphq.org CPHQ certification
Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) www.ruralhealth.hrsa.gov consulting, ed, strategic planning, grants
HospitalCompare www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/ get hospital performance reports
Hospital Quality Alliance www.lumetra.com/hospitals/datareporting/hqa/index.asp hospital performance reporting Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) www.ihi.org/IHI 100K Lives Campaign, education Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations www.jcaho.org JCAHO accreditation program
Medicare Quality Improvement Community (Medqic) www.medqic.org HIT readiness assessment tool
Montana Dept of Health & Human Services www.dphhs.mt/gov State regulations
Montana Health Network www.montanahealthnetwork.com liability, risk management
MT Hospital Association www.mtha.org MHA and PIN information
Mountain Pacific Quality Health Foundation www.mpqhf.org MT Quality Improvement Org (QIO)
National Assoc. for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) www.nahq.org education
National Fire Protection Assoc. www.nfpa.org Life Safety Code, regs & ed
National Immunization Program www.cdc.gov/nip pneumonia immunizations
National Institute of Health (NIH) www.nih.gov news, education, grants
National Institute for Health Care Management www.nihcm.org/finalweb/default.htm education
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health www.cdc.gov/niosh/homepage occupational safety & health
NursingHomeCompare www.medicare.gov/nhcompare/home.asp get NH performance reports
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) www.osha.gov OSHA regs & education
Quality Net Exchange www.gnetexchange.org/public ed, performance reporting
Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) www.medqic.org/scip surgical care infection prevention measures
The Greely Company www.greely.com consulting, ed, strategic planning; physicians
The Sullivan Group www.thesullivangroup.com EMTALA
VHA, Inc. www.vha.com consulting, ed, regional collaboratives
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