U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
DHHS is the federal government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services.
AHRQ - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
AHRQ sponsors and conducts research that provides information for better decisionmaking by health system leaders.
Rutgers Center for State Healthcare Policy
CSHP is a guide to health policy related web sites, with an emphasis on New Jersey.
RAND Health
RAND is a non-profit research and analysis institution that publishes their findings online.
Certification and Compliance: Nursing Homes
Information about being certified as a Medicare and/or Medicaid nursing home provider and includes links to applicable laws, regulations, and compliance information. Also includes nursing home reports, compendia, and a list of special focus facilities. From the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Health & Hospital Rankings
America's Health Rankings provides an annual analysis of national health on a state-by-state basis and ranking of the healthiest and least healthy states.
Best Hospitals is an annual list of rankings of America's medical centers, in 17 specialties. Includes a tab for "best children's hospitals".
Here you will find links to an array of resources available on the web. Most are free, although some require registration and/or offer additional resources for a price.
I encourage you to provide feedback or share web sites that you have discovered and found useful.
Model:
What is Socialized Medicine?: A taxonomy of health care systems
Uwe Reinhardt, professor at Princeton University, explains difference between socialized medicine and social health insurance
Trends:
America's Health Rankings
Analysis of national health by state
Kaiser Foundation employer Health Benefits annual survey
Kaiser Foundation Trends in health care costs and spending
Kaiser Foundation Trends and indicators in the changing health care marketplace
Quality:
National Committee for Quality Assurance
Private, nonprofit NCQA studies reports on health care quality.
National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
NHQRP uses quality measures to report on health care.
Statistics:
NCHS (National Center for Health Statistics)
A subdivision of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the NCHS adminsters surveys to monitor health status and determine trends in health care delivery
Health Statistics resources compiled by Montclair State University
Internet public library Health & Medical Sciences. A directory of over 600 sites (you can also narrow by more specific topic).
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
"Since 1975, CBO has produced independent analyses of budgetary and economic issues to support the Congressional budget process. Each year, the agency’s economists and budget analysts produce dozens of reports and hundreds of cost estimates for proposed legislation. CBO is strictly nonpartisan; conducts objective, impartial analysis; and hires its employees solely on the basis of professional competence without regard to political affiliation. CBO does not make policy recommendations, and each report and cost estimate summarizes the methodology underlying the analysis." [from CBO website]
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The foundation's mission is to improve the health and health care of all Americans. The website provides access to news, data, articles, research reports, white papers, and more.
PDQ (“pretty darn quick”)-Evidence facilitates rapid access to the best available evidence for decisions about health systems. It includes systematic reviews, broad syntheses of reviews (including evidence-based policy briefs), primary studies included in systematic reviews and structured summaries of that evidence.
Epistemonikos is a collaborative, multilingual database of health evidence. It is the largest source of systematic reviews relevant for health-decision making, and a large source of other types of scientific evidence.