| CARF |
http://www.carf.org
The Rehabilitation Accreditation
commission |
| COLA |
http://www.cola.org
A nonprofit accrediting
organization that promotes excellence in medicine and client care through
programs of voluntary education, achievement, and accreditation |
| Health Care Financing Administration |
http://www.hcfa.gov
Fed agency that administers
Medicare, Medicaid, and Child Health Insurance Programs |
| Joint commission on Accreditation
of Healthcare Organization |
http://www.jcaho.org
Nation’s oldest and largest
standards setting and accrediting body in health care -- evaluating &
accrediting >15,000 health care organizations in the US |
| BVNE - Board of Vocational
Nurse Examiners |
http://link.tsl.state.tx.us/tx/bvne/
http://www.texas.gov/agency/511.html
Licensing & Governing
Body of Vocational Nursing in Texas |
| CDC |
http://www.cdc.gov
Center for Disease Control
and Prevention |
| Department of Health and
Human Services (DHHS) |
http://www.os.dhhs.gov
The principal federal agency
dedicated to protecting health of all Americans and providing essential
human services |
| Dept of health and Human
Serviced, GrantsNet |
http://www.hs.gov/proorg/grantsnet
Supports an online tool for finding and exchanging info about federal grant
programs |
| Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) |
http://www.fda.gov/
Serves to protect the consumer
from unsafe products |
| Internet Grateful Med-US
National Library of Medicine |
http://igm.nlm.nih.gov
Offers assisted searching
in Medline and other online databases of the US National Library of Medicine |
| Library of Congress |
http://www.loc.gov
Includes historical archives,
legislative info, and a library service and research database |
| National Institutes of Health
(NIH) |
http://www.nih.gov
Contains extensive health
info, grants and contracts opportunities, and scientific resources |
| NLM Extramural Programs |
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/extramural.html
Includes info on grants
and other assistance mechanisms |
| Thomas: Legislative Info
on the Internet |
http://thomas.loc.gov
Makes federal legislative
info available to the public |