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American Hospital Association - - The Association represents hospitals, healthcare networks and their patients and communities. Extensive information on current Acts, Congressional budgets and news of interest to the healthcare industry.

Coalition to Protect America's Health Care - - Information on how the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 is hurting America's hospitals.

Duke Center for Health Policy: Hospital Conversions - - Hospital conversion in the marketplace and the policy world. The growing trend towards mergers and acquisitions in the hospital industry.

Institute for Safe Medical Practices - - Organization that gathers safety data from hospitals and makes recommendations to improve patient safety in hospitals.

The Leapfrog Group - - An organization of health insurance companies that is promoting Computerized Physician Order Entry to hospitals as a way to decrease medication errors.

National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems - - Represents the nations's health care system as advocate to hospitals, research, and education. Most members are major teaching hospitals or academic health science centers.

National Association of Urban Hospitals (NAUH) - - A coalition of private safety-net urban hospitals who have joined to assure adequate reimbursement from public payers such as Medicaid & Medicare.