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NJHA Library & Links
Professional Resources
Links - Healthcare Directories and Guides
The following is a selected list of authoritative healthcare directories and guides useful for the healthcare professional and consumer, organized by topic. - Guides
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
- Your Guide to Choosing Quality Health Care.
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This guide provides information to help consumers and is based on research about what people want and need in order to make quality health care decisions. This guide covers health plans, doctors, treatments, hospitals and long-term care. - Cover the Uninsured. Guides to Finding Health Insurance Coverage in Your State.
This Web site provides guides for each state. Each guide provides key contacts, guidelines and important state-specific information about health insurance availability, for state sponsored programs and contact information low-cost primary healthcare, pharmaceutical assistance, COBRA Medicaid, Medicare and more. - JCAHO. Helping You Choose the Hospital for You.
Provides questions to ask will help you choose a facility that provides quality care and best meets your needs. It covers questions to ask generally, those for your specific needs and discharge planning. - JCAHO. Quality Check™.
Quality Check is one source of accreditation and comparison information that can help a consumer determine whether a health care organization will meet his or her needs. - N.J. Dept. of Health & Senior Services. Guide to New Jersey Hospitals, Hospital Performance Report, How to Choose a Hospital or Physician.
This site provides a wealth of resources for consumers about hospital quality, patient rights, filing complaints and taking an active role in your healthcare. - N.J. Dept. of Health & Senior Services. Selecting a Long-Term Care Setting: A Guide for Consumers
Provides guidance for the reader about how to select a long term care facility, quality and performance reports and descriptions of the various kinds of facilities including nursing homes/skilled nursing facilities, home health care, adult day care, respite care, hospice care, residential health care facilities (RHCF), assisted living residences and comprehensive personal care homes (ALR, CPCH), assisted living (ALP), alternate family care (AFC) and continuing care retirement communities (CCRC). - National Library of Medicine. FAQ: Hospital Information.
Offers links and details about where you can find information about U.S. and international hospitals.
- Clinical Trials
- The Joint Commission. "What You Should Know About Research Studies"
Designed to orient potential participants to the research process and arm them with questions that will help them become more active, involved and informed about clinical research trials in which they may enroll. - National Institutes of Health (NIH). ClinicalTrials.gov
This site provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers. It details the trial's purpose, who may participate, locations and phone numbers for more details. - National Library of Medicine. Clinical Trials.
This site provides authoritative resources to help you understand and locate clinical trials and includes the latest news, National Institutes of Health information, overviews, related issues, financial issues, dictionaries, directories, organizations, law and policy, statistics and information about children in research and a parent's guide. - National Institutes of Health (NIH). Links to General Information on Clinical Trials.
This site provides links to clinical trials by topic and includes cancer, vision, mental health, drugs and Medicare coverage information. The sites that provide trials and are listed here are also included in the NIH ClinicalTrials.gov Web site noted above.
- Hospitals/Systems – New Jersey
- Hospitals/Systems - United States
- Long Term Care Facilities:
- adult day care
- alternate family care
- assisted living facilities
- assisted living residences (ALR)
- comprehensive personal care homes (CPCH)
- continuing care retirement communities (CCRC)
- health care facilities (RHCF)
- home health
- hospice
- nursing homes/skilled nursing facilities
- residential
- respite care
- N.J. Dept. of Health & Senior Services. Search for Long Term Care Facilities
A directory of New Jersey long term care facilities that can be searched by facility type, county, zip code, facility name, funding source or specialized care available. Includes the types of long term care facilities bulleted above.
- Physicians - New Jersey
- Medical Society of New Jersey (MSNJ). Physician Finder.
A source of information on individual physician-members of the MSNJ, for use by physician-members, health care professionals, and the public. It does not contain sufficient information to verify physician credentials but it does offer general information. - New Jersey. New Jersey Physician and Podiatrist Profiles.
Provided by the N.J. Division of Consumer Affairs for consumers. It can be searched to locate doctors practicing in a particular area or hospital and includes information about a doctor's education, training, and medical practice, languages spoken, if the office is accessible to persons with disabilities, whether a physician or podiatrist has been the subject of disciplinary actions or whether he or she has made malpractice payments in the last five years. The profiles may also be used to help find a specialist or a practitioner who accepts your health plan. - New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners Home page
- New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners Online Complaint Form
- American Board of Medical Specialties. "How a Physician Becomes Board Certified."
- Physicians - United States
- Substance Abuse - Alcohol and Drug Abuse
- United States. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Treatment Facility Locator.
This directory of drug and alcohol treatment programs shows the location of facilities around the country that treat alcoholism, alcohol abuse and drug abuse problems. It is searchable and includes more than 11,000 addiction treatment programs, including residential treatment centers, outpatient treatment programs, and hospital inpatient programs for drug addiction and alcoholism.
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