Government & Accrediting/Regulatory Bodies

Links - Government & Accrediting / Regulatory Bodies

Lone Star College-Kingwood Vocational Nursing Web Sites related to Nursing, Health Care, Medicine, Science. This list and the ones on the next pages will link you directly to web sites for you to utilize for research, as well as general fun nursing links! Give us feedback if any site is not working.
CARF http://www.carf.org
The Rehabilitation Accreditation commission 
COLA  http://www.cola.org 
A nonprofit accrediting organization that promotes excellence in medicine and client care through programs of voluntary education, achievement, and accreditation
Health Care Financing Administration  http://www.hcfa.gov
Fed agency that administers Medicare, Medicaid, and Child Health Insurance Programs
Joint commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization http://www.jcaho.org 
Nation’s oldest and largest standards setting and accrediting body in health care -- evaluating & accrediting >15,000 health care organizations in the US
BVNE - Board of Vocational Nurse Examiners   http://link.tsl.state.tx.us/tx/bvne/
 http://www.texas.gov/agency/511.html
Licensing & Governing Body of Vocational Nursing in Texas
CDC  http://www.cdc.gov
Center for Disease Control and Prevention 
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) http://www.os.dhhs.gov
The principal federal agency dedicated to protecting health of all Americans and providing essential human services
Dept of health and Human Serviced, GrantsNet http://www.hs.gov/proorg/grantsnet Supports an online tool for finding and exchanging info about federal grant programs
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)  http://www.fda.gov/
Serves to protect the consumer from unsafe products
Internet Grateful Med-US National Library of Medicine  http://igm.nlm.nih.gov
Offers assisted searching in Medline and other online databases of the US National Library of Medicine
Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov
Includes historical archives, legislative info, and a library service and research database
National Institutes of Health (NIH) http://www.nih.gov
Contains extensive health info, grants and contracts opportunities, and scientific resources
NLM Extramural Programs  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/extramural.html
Includes info on grants and other assistance mechanisms
Thomas: Legislative Info on the Internet  http://thomas.loc.gov 
Makes federal legislative info available to the public
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