External Resources

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - www.ahrq.gov
Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration - www.bphc.hrsa.gov
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - www.cdc.gov
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - www.cms.gov
Health Resources Guide USA - www.healthguideusa.com/local_health_departments.htm
Health Resources and Services Administration - www.hrsa.gov
HIV/AIDS Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration - http://hab.hrsa.gov
Library of Congress - www.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html
Medicare Program for Beneficiaries - www.medicare.gov
Medicare Fiscal Intermediary, National Government Services - www.ugsmedicare.com
National Health Service Corps - http://nhsc.bhpr.hrsa.gov
Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration - www.ruralhealth.hrsa.gov
U.S. Census Bureau - www.census.gov
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services - www.hhs.gov
U.S. Senate Finance Committee - www.senate.gov/~finance
U.S. House Commerce Committee - http://energycommerce.house.gov/
U.S. Government Accountability Office - www.gao.gov
The National Archives: Federal Register - www.archives.gov/federal-register/index.html
Thomas (The Library of Congress) - http://thomas.loc.gov/
United States House of Representatives - www.house.gov
United States Senate - www.senate.gov
USDA Rural Information Center - http://ric.nal.usda.gov
White House - www.whitehouse.gov

State Government

All Kids - www.allkidscovered.com
Illinois Center for Rural Health - www.idph.state.il.us/about/rural_health/rural_home.htm
Illinois Client Enrollment Broker - www.illinoisceb.org
Illinois Community College Board - www.iccb.state.il.us
Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services - www.hfs.illinois.gov
Illinois Department of Human Services - www.dhs.state.il.us
Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation - www.idfpr.com
Illinois Department of Public Health - www.idph.state.il.us
Illinois General Assembly - www.ilga.gov
Illinois Health Connect - www.illinoishealthconnect.com
Illinois House Democrats - www.housedem.state.il.us/index2.htm
Illinois House of Republicans - http://www.ilhousegop.org/
Illinois Provider Directory for Children with Special Health Care Needs - www.illinoisproviderdirectory.org/icaap
Illinois Republican Party - www.ilgop.org
Illinois Senate Republicans - www.senategop.state.il.us
Illinois Senate Democrats - http://www.senatedem.ilga.gov/default.asp
Illinois State Medical Inter-Insurance Exchange - www.birkey.com/project.asp?proj=209
State of Illinois - www.illinois.gov
Your Healthcare Plus - https://yourhealthcareplus.careenhance.com/portal/index.jsp

Provider & Professional Associations

American Academy of Family Physicians - www.aafp.org
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners - www.aanp.org
Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics - www.illinoisaap.org
American Academy of Physician Assistants - www.aapa.org
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists - www.acog.org
American College of Nurse Practitioners - www.acnpweb.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1
American Medical Association - www.ama-assn.org
American Nurses Association - www.nursingworld.org
Clinical Directors Network - www.cdnetwork.org
Commonwealth Fund - www.cmwf.org
Illinois Academy of Family Physicians - www.iafp.com
Illinois Academy of Physician Assistants - www.illinoispa.org
Illinois Health Education Consortium - www.ihec.org
Illinois Maternal & Child Health Coalition - www.ilmaternal.org
Illinois Public Health Association - www.ipha.com
Illinois Rural Health Association - www.ilruralhealth.org
Illinois Society of Advanced Practice Nursing - www.isapn.org
Illinois State Dental Society - www.isds.org
Illinois State Medical Society - www.isms.org
Institute of Medicine - www.iom.edu
The Joint Commission - www.jointcommission.org
National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) - www.nachc.com
Midwives of Illinois- http://midwivesofillinois.org/index.html

Health Care Related

Association of Clinicians for the Underserved - www.clinicians.org
Evidence-Based Medicine - www.montana.edu/wwwebm/Home.htm
Families USA - www.familiesusa.org
Healthy People - www.healthypeople.gov
Health Professional Shortage Areas - http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/shortage/
Ounce of Prevention - www.ounceofprevention.org
Illinois Project for Local Assessment of Needs (IPLAN) - http://app.idph.state.il.us/
Illinois Public Health Institute - www.iphionline.org
Maternal and Child Health Bureau - www.mchb.hrsa.gov
National Health Observances - http://www.healthfinder.gov/nho/
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute - www.nhlbi.nih.gov
National Women's Health Information Center - www.4women.gov
The Cross Cultural Health Care Program - www.xculture.org
The National Guideline Clearinghouse - www.guideline.gov
Urban Institute - www.urban.org/health/index.cfm

Health Insurance / Medicaid

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law: Medicaid - www.bazelon.org/issues/medicaid/index.htm
CMS: Medicaid - www.cms.hhs.gov/home/medicaid.asp?
CMS: State Childrens Health Insurance Program - http://www.cms.hhs.gov/home/chip.asp
Insure Kids Now - www.insurekidsnow.gov
Kaiser Family Foundation:Profile of Uninsured - www.kff.org/uninsured/profile.cfm
Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation (carrier for Medicare Part B in Illinois) - www.wpsic.com
Illinois- www.hfs.illinois.gov
Illinois Children Healthcare Foundation - www.ilchf.org

Grant Resources

Applied Social Research Unit - www.asru.ilstu.edu
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (grant listings & links) - www.cfda.gov
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - www.cdc.gov/funding.htm
Chronicle of Philanthropy (grant list by deadlines) - http://philanthropy.com/deadlines/
Council on Foundations (foundation listing and links) - www.cof.org/index.cfm
Donors Forum of Chicago (foundation listing) - http://www.donorsforum.org/about/mplinks.html
Federal Grants - www.grants.gov
Foundation Center (foundation listing & grant-writing resources) - www.fdncenter.org/
FundsNet (foundation and grant listings & grant-writing resources) - www.fundsnetservices.com
Grant Proposal.com (grant & proposal writing tips) - www.grantproposal.com
Guide Star (grant provider listing & grant-writing resources) - www.guidestar.org
Housing & Urban Development Funds - www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/fundsavail.cfm
Maternal & Child Health Bureau Funding Opportunities -www.mchb.hrsa.gov/grants/default.htm
National Institute of Mental Health - http://www.nimh.nih.gov/research-funding/index.shtml
Non-Profit Guides (tools for grant-writing) - www.npguides.org
Office of Minority Health - www.omhrc.gov
Philanthropy Journal Online - www.philanthropy-journal.org
Rural Information Center, Community Development Resources - www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ruralres/health.htm
Rural Information Center, Funding Resources - http://ric.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=5&tax_level=1&tax_subject=319
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration - www.samhsa.gov/grants/
Society of Research Administrator’s, The (SRA) International Grants Web - www.srainternational.org/newweb/grantsweb/index.cfm
U.S. Census Bureau (for supporting data) - www.census.gov
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (agency links to grants) - www.hhs.gov/grants/index.shtml
U.S. DHHS National Institutes of Health - http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/index.cfm
Volunteers in Health Care - www.volunteersinhealthcare.org/home.htm

Recruitment & Retention

Illinois Health Professional Recruiting Opportunities - www.illinoishealthpro.org
Southern Illinois University Practice Opportunities - www.siumed.edu/practice_ops
National Rural Recruitment and Retention Network - www.3rnet.org
American Board of Medical Specialties- www.abms.org
Rural Illinois Medical Student Assistance Program- www.rimsap.com
Illinois Staff Physician Recruiters- www.isprnet.org
Explore Health Careers- www.explorehealthcareers.org

Relocation Resources

Chicago Reader - www.chicagoreader.com

Metromix - http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/

Moving - www.moving.com