Health Care System
Sites providing information on hospices, hospitals, nursing homes, and physicians.
Hospices
Provides a list of cities and counties in the specified state that are served by NHPCO member hospices. Selecting a city or county will result in a list of local Hospice's in the surrounding area that serve that city or county complete with contact information.
Hospitals
Annual ranking from U. S. News & World Report of the top medical centers in 17 specialties.
This directory is provided by U.S. News and the American Hospital Association and has facts and figures on more than 6,000 hospitals. It is possible to search by name or state or do a customized search.
This is a searchable site from the Ohio Dept. of Health providing a means to compare hospital performance generally or by specific measures such as health condition or procedure.
Nursing Homes
Site provided by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. "The primary purpose of this tool is to provide detailed information about the performance of every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the country."
Physicians
Searchable physician directory from the American Medical Association that allows you to search by name or medical specialty.
Statistics, Datasets
HSRR is a searchable database of information about research datasets, instruments/indices and software. Users may examine and compare characteristics of resources employed in health services research, behavioral and social sciences and public health.
