HEALTH ADMINISTRATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES
HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
American College of Healthcare Executives - ACHE, the publisher of the Journal of Healthcare Management, and the magazine, Healthcare Executive, is known for its prestigious credentialing and educational programs as well as its publishing.
http://www.ache.org/
American Dietetic Association - strong information resource for nutrition and health. http://www.eatright.org/Public/
America's Best Hospitals 2003 - the 14th annual U.S. News & World Report edition of "America's Best Hospitals." This site ranks the 203 top medical centers in 17 specialties.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/nycu/health/hosptl/tophosp.htm
America's Uninsured: A Closer Look - About 40 million Americans lack health insurance. This report published by the National Academy of Sciences examines the consequences of being uninsured for those individuals and for our larger society. http://www4.nas.edu/onpi/webextra.nsf/web/uninsured?OpenDocument
DisabilityInfo.gov - a comprehensive federal website of disability related government resources.
http://www.disabilityinfo.gov/
Health Administration Super Sites
http://www.pohly.com/admin5.html
HealthWeb: Health Administration and Health Policy - A joint effort between the Public Health Library and the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and the HealthWeb Project. Has links to associations, government agencies, e-journals, hospitals, managed care, health policy, and listservs.
http://www.healthweb.org/browse.cfm?subjectid=44
Internet Resources: Health Administration & Hospital Management - Compiled by the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System, includes links to Pennsylvania resources.
http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/guides/internet/admin
Long Term Care Education.com - Of interest to those in long term care administration, the site provides info and offers distance learning courses to nursing home administrators and residential care/assisted living administrators. It is maintained by Dr. James E. Allen of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
http://www.ltcedu.com/
Rural Policy Research Institute - dedicated to providing information about helpful resources such as basic statistics about rural America.
http://www.rupri.org/
State Health Facts Online - Provided by the Kaiser Family Foundations, this site provides the latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation.
http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org/
U. S. Dept. of Health & Human Services - Information on the department's more than 300 programs (including Medicare and Medicaid) administered by its 11 operating divisions, can be accessed from this page.
http://www.os.dhhs.gov/
HUMAN RESOURCES
Federal Labor Relations Authority - an independent agency that is responsible for administering the labor-management relations program for close to 2 million federal employees across the world.
http://www.flra.gov/
HR Internet Guide - A commercial site containing scores of links on compensation, job analysis, benefits, training and development, employee behavior problems, employee handbooks, and other topics of interest.
http://www.hr-guide.com/
Human Resource Management - Links are compiled by Biz/ed, "a unique business and economics service for students, teachers and lecturers" in the UK. http://catalogue.bized.ac.uk/roads/hrman.html
Important Organizations in HR Management - Site maintained by Dr. William Wallick, Assistant Professor in the Human Resources Department at the University of Scranton. http://academic.scranton.edu/faculty/wgw1/ImportantOrganizationsinHRManagement.html
Links to Other HR Related Locations - Useful links for the HR professional compiled by Eric R. Wilson, on his "Human Resource Professional's Gateway to the Internet" page. http://www.hrprosgateway.com/www/links.html
SHRM Online - The official web site of the Society for Human Resource Management. http://www.shrm.org/
