Duke Center for Health Policy: Hospital Conversions - Hospital conversion in the marketplace and the policy world. The growing trend towards mergers and acquisitions in the hospital industry.
National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems - Represents the nations's health care system as advocate to hospitals, research, and education. Most members are major teaching hospitals or academic health science centers.
National Association of Urban Hospitals (NAUH) - A coalition of private safety-net urban hospitals who have joined to assure adequate reimbursement from public payers such as Medicaid & Medicare.
The Leapfrog Group - An organization of health insurance companies that is promoting Computerized Physician Order Entry to hospitals as a way to decrease medication errors.
Institute for Safe Medical Practices - Organization that gathers safety data from hospitals and makes recommendations to improve patient safety in hospitals.
American Hospital Association - The Association represents hospitals, healthcare networks and their patients and communities. Extensive information on current Acts, Congressional budgets and news of interest to the healthcare industry.
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