Miscellaneous Healthcare

Links

• American Board of Medical Specialties
  Assists 24 approved medical specialty boards in the development and use of standards in the ongoing evaluation and certification of physicians.
• American Cancer Society
  The nationwide, community-based, voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.
• American Diabetes Association
  Leading the fight against the deadly consequences of diabetes and fighting for those affected by diabetes.
• American Medical Association
  Their mission is to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health. You can find any disciplinary actions against a doctor.
• Caring Bridge
  Free, personalized websites that support and connect loved ones during critical illness, treatment and recovery.
• Chafee Community Support Services
  Chafee Community Support Services may provide you free assistance in housing, medical care, education and employment as well as in emergency situations. Youth may be eligible if they are likely to remain in foster care until 18 and have not reached their 21st birthday; they are former foster care recipients, who age out of foster care at 18 or older and have not reached their 21st birthday.
• Epilepsy Foundation
  The organization works to ensure that people with seizures are able to participate in all life experiences; to improve how people with epilepsy are perceived, accepted and valued in society; and to promote research for a cure. In addition to programs conducted at the national level, epilepsy clients throughout the United States are served by more than 50 Epilepsy Foundation affiliates around the country.
• Find a Doctor Online
  A team of doctors and programmers who created FindaDoc to make the daunting and sometimes frustrating process of finding the best doctor as simple as possible.
• Healthcare.gov
  HealthCare.gov allows consumers to search for both public and private health coverage options through an easy to use health insurance finder tool. Based on answers to a series of questions, the coverage finder produces a menu of potential coverage choices personalized for the user.
• Hill Burton Free and Reduced Cost Healthcare
  Free and reduced cost healthcare.
• Merck Manual of Medical Information
  Explains disorders, who is likely to get them, their symptoms, how they are diagnosed, how they might be prevented, and how they can be treated; also provides information about prognosis.
• National Library of Medicine
  The world's largest medical library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.
• Piecing Together Quality Long-Term Care: A Consumer's Guide to Choices and Advocacy
  National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care, announces the launch of its new guide which is intended to educate people with disabilities and older adults about their options for long-term services and supports and empower them to be self-advocates for quality long-term care. The guide also provides information and resources to assist people currently living in nursing homes to move back into the community.
• The Joint Commission - Report a Complaint
  Report a complaint about a Health Care Organization.
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights Complaints
  If you believe that you have been discriminated against because of your race, color, national origin, disability, age, sex or religion by a health care or human services provider (such as a hospital, nursing home, social service agency, etc.) or by a State or local government health or human services agency, you may file a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights HIPAA Privacy Complaints
  If you believe that a covered entity violated your (or someone else's) health information privacy rights or committed another violation of the Privacy Rule, you may file a complaint with OCR.
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights Patient Safety Confidentiality Complaints
  If you believe that a person or organization impermissibly disclosed PSWP, you may file a complaint with OCR. OCR is responsible for the investigation and enforcement of the confidentiality provisions of the Patient Safety Rule.
• West Virginia Board of Medicine
  Issues licenses to practice medicine and surgery, to practice podiatry, and to practice as a physician assistant for a medical doctor in the State of West Virginia, and is the regulatory and disciplinary body for the practice of medicine and surgery and the practice of podiatry and for physician assistants for M.D.'s in this State.
• West Virginia Board of Medicine Complaints
  To file a complaint with the West Virginia Board of Medicine against a doctor licensed in West Virginia.
• West Virginia Catastrophic Illness Commission
  The Commission acts as a last resort for those in dire need of medical assistance once all other resources are exhausted.
• West Virginia Center for End-of-Life Care
  The West Virginia Center for End-of-Life Care provides assistance to West Virginians so that at the end of life they know what medical treatments they want and their wishes are respected.
• West Virginia Registered Nurses Board Complaint
  To file a complaint against a Registered Nurse (RN) licensed in West Virginia.