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HHS Announces $25.7 Million in Grants to Expand, Improve Health Centers
Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced more than $25.7 million in grants to increase and improve health and support services at the nation's health centers. Patients receive care at health centers regardless of their ability to pay. The centers offer many forms of medical care including checkups, immunizations for children, dental care and prescription drugs, and mental health and substance abuse services.
Becoming an Involved Health Care Consumer
Places to get information about medical conditions and hospital quality--an important first step in getting better health care. Use this information to ask your doctor, nurse or pharmacist questions about your condition. Becoming more involved in your own health care will help with getting the right treatment at the right time in the right place.
Community Health Center Grants
$155 million in grants authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act have been released to support Community Health Centers across the country. These New Access Point grants will help provide health services to 750,000 Americans and create 5,500 jobs. Find a health center in your state
Financial Aid for Health Professions Students & Practitioners
Loans, scholarships and loan re-payment resources for students and practioners involved in health professions.
Find A Health Center
Federally-funded health centers care for you, even if you have no health insurance. You pay what you can afford based on your income. There are health centers in most cities and many rural areas.
Guide to Choosing Quality Health Care
Guide is based on research about the information people want and need when choosing health plans, doctors, treatments, hospitals, and long-term care.
HealthFinder.gov
Helps you locate a doctor or other health care provider, health center, home health care or hospital near you.
Hospital Compare
This tool provides information on how well hospitals care for all their adult patients relating to certain conditions or procedures. This information will help you compare the quality of care hospitals provide.
National Center for Benefits Outreach & Enrollment
Helps organizations enroll seniors and younger adults with disabilities with limited means into the benefits programs for which they are eligible so that they can remain healthy and improve the quality of their lives.
National Long Term Care Ombudsman Resource Center
Find an advocate for residents of nursing homes, board and care homes and assisted living facilities. Ombudsmen provide information about how to find a facility and what to do to get quality care. They are trained to resolve problems.
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