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The following links will take you off of Capitol City Family Health Center's Website. These links are additional available resources we have compiled for you. Please keep in mind that Capitol City Family Health Center is not responsible for the content found at other websites. Thanks for visiting us. We hope to see you soon. Don't forget to sign our
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AARP - A nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to making life better for people age 50 and older. The AARP Bulletin includes a Long Term Care channel. |
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Age 50 Blueprint - Adobe Acrobat document that provides information on “increasing physical activity among adults age 50 and older” |
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American Medical Association - AMA's work includes the development and promotion of standards in medical practice, research, and education; strong advocacy agenda on behalf of patients and physicians; and the commitment to providing accurate, timely information and discourse on matters important to the health of American. |
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Arnett and Foster - Arnett and Foster is a public accounting and consulting firm that specializes in health care. Rate and Audit Review is contracting with Arnett and Foster to develop a reimbursement methodology based on the “Inventory for Client and Agency Planning” (ICAP) assessment for intermediate care facilities for the developmentally disabled. The contact person for Arnett and Foster is: Lane Ellis, Jr., CPA, 101 Washington Street,E. Charleston, West Virginia, 25329, Telephone: (800)642-3601; Ext: 3311 Fax: (304) 346-8333 |
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Avita Drugs - A specialty pharmacy established to service the
needs of patients living with: HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis-C, mental health needs, and
other diseases with a free home delivery system for patients whose medication(s)
are not always stocked in a traditional pharmacy. |
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Capital Area Agency on Aging - Interrelated supportive and nutrition services for all persons aged 60 and older in the parishes of Ascension, Assumption, East Feliciana, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, Tangipahoa, Washington, West Baton Rouge and West Feliciana. |
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Capital Area United Way - Visit your local United Way to explore community solutions, learn about health & human service issues, donate or volunteer, express your opinions and provide your thoughts. |
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Compassion Capital Fund National Resource Center - The center provides capacity-building support by working with federal agencies to develop and serve as a repository of information, tools and resources needed to improve capacity, knowledge and skills. |
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Department of Health and Human Services - DHHS is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. |
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Food & Drug Administration - regulates over $1 trillion worth of products, which account for 25 cents of every dollar spent annually by American consumers. The Food and Drug Administration touches the lives of virtually every American every day. For it is FDA's job to see that the food we eat is safe and wholesome, the cosmetics we use won't hurt us, the medicines and medical devices we use are safe and effective, and that radiation-emitting products such as microwave ovens won't do us harm. Feed and drugs for pets and farm animals also come under FDA scrutiny. |
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HealthFinder - is a free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information website developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. healthfinder® can lead you to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public. Launched in April 1997, healthfinder® served Internet users over 1.7 million times in its first year online. |
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HealthFinder - Spanish Version - is a free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information website developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. healthfinder® can lead you to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public. Launched in April 1997, healthfinder® served Internet users over 1.7 million times in its first year online. |
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Illinois Health Care Cost Containment Council - was created in 1984 by the Illinois General Assembly (The Illinois Finance Reform Act, Public Act 83-1243). Through a uniform data-processing system, the agency collects, analyzes and reports health care costs and utilization data from Illinois hospitals. In July 1996, the agency's authority was expanded and it was instructed to conduct a two-phase pilot testing process by gathering current outpatient data from a select group of hospital outpatient clinics and freestanding ambulatory surgery centers. The data collected during the pilot phases was used to produce a report which was submitted to the General Assembly on March 1, 1998. The General Assembly will use the report to determine the nature of any further outpatient data collection. |
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LaCHIP - The Louisiana Children's Health Insurance Program (LaCHIP) is a health insurance program designed to bring quality health care to uninsured children and youth up to the age of 19 in Louisiana. |
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Louisiana State University Medical Center - provides education, research, patient care services and community outreach. LSU Medical Center encompasses six professional schools - the School of Medicine in New Orleans, the School of Medicine in Shreveport, the School of Graduate Studies in New Orleans and Shreveport, the School of Nursing, the School of Dentistry, and the School of Allied Health Professions in New Orleans and Shreveport. |
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Louisiana Tobacco Control Program - The OPH Louisiana Tobacco Control Program's comprehensive plan is based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's, "Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs." |
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National Health Information Center - is a health information referral service. NHIC puts health professionals and consumers who have health questions in touch with those organizations that are best able to provide answers. NHIC was established in 1979 by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), Office of Public Health and Science,Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. |
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation - The DOT Auto Safety Hotline was created in 1975 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The Hotline was designed to gather information about alleged safety problems in motor vehicles and equipment. Today the Hotline is the Agency's "Single Point of Contact" providing callers with motor vehicle safety information, Child Safety Seat material, and airbag information. |
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National Institutes of Health - An introduction to some of the many health information resources provided by the National Institutes of Health. For additional health information you may also want to try Healthfinder, a gateway consumer health and human services information web site from the United States government. The Health Information Index will help you identify the Institute(s) responsible for the area in which you are interested and will provide a link directly to the home page of that Institute. |
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National Library of Medicine - Every significant program of the Library is represented, from medical history to biotechnology. We hope that the resources of the world's largest biomedical library will find ever wider useful application around the nation and around the world. |
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Patient
Education Center
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The Patient Education Center can help you keep healthy through
diet
and
exercise,
figure out your symptoms, decide what treatment might be best for you, learn
about other options available for your health care ... and more.
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Parish Health Units - Select your area from the map, to access prish health unit information. |
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State Health Facts Online - This improved website has easy to use options to provide quick access to health data and policy information for all 50 states. |
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Team Amber Alert - To forge a nationwide commitment by people acting individually or together to prevent predatorial acts of abduction, assault, murder or terror by creating the safest, most alerted communities via digital domains. |
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Tulane Medical School - The Tulane Office of Medical Informatics helps the Tulane Medical Center plan, develop and implement computer and communications systems that support its missions in medical education, clinical practice, and research. We maintain expertise in key technologies important in education, electronic publishing, and research and clinical data management. We also help Medical Center departments incorporate current computing technology into their teaching and clinical work by providing consultative support, expert assessment of commercial hardware and software, training opportunities, internal software development, and shared equipment and software resources. We are organized under the Chancellor's Office of the Tulane Medical Center. As a part of our activities, we maintain the Tulane Medical Center Web Server and we support departments and offices of the Tulane Medical Center in the development and maintenance of their own web pages on the server. A mission statement and a more detailed list of our services is available. |
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Veteran's Administration - Veteran's Administration Website is a portal of VA's facility listings across the United States. |
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DHH Health Standards Section - Licenses health care facilities to operate in the state of Louisiana and certifies these facilities for participation in Medicare and Medicaid. |
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Elderly Protective Services - Elderly Protective Services serves adults over the age of 59 who cannot physically or mentally protect themselves and who are harmed or threatened with harm through action or inaction by themselves or by the individuals responsible for their care or by other persons. |
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Louisiana Office of the State Register - The Office of the State Register publishes monthly the Louisiana Register, the state's official medium for making administrative law documents public. In addition, the office compiles the rules by subject area into the Louisiana Administrative Code. |
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Medicare Long-Term Care Site - Topics include "What is Long-Term Care?", "Steps to Choosing Long-Term Care", "Types of Long-Term Care", and "Paying for Long-Term Care." |
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