Consumers

www.healthcharitiesillinois.org Community Health Charities
www.caringinfo.org National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization's Consumer Website
www.familydoctor.org Linked from American Academy of Family Physicians website. Dedicated to patients and families.
http://cms.hhs.gov Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) home page.
www.abcd-caring.org Americans for Better Care of the Dying
www.partnershipforcaring.org Partnership for Caring
www.alz.org Alzheimer's Association
www.aarp.org AARP. The nation's leading organization for people 50 or older.
www.hospicefoundation.org Hospice Foundation of America is a nonprofit organization that promotes hospice care and works to educate professionals and the families they serve in issues relating to caregiving, terminal illness, loss and bereavement.
www.funeralplan.com How to plan a funeral
www.funeralcost.com Estimate what funeral costs will be

Hospice Providers

www.illinois.gov The Illinois preemption analysis (draft) is now available. There is a link on the right side of the page to the analysis.
www.palliativecareinstitute.com Palliative Care Institute provides high quality, accredited, online educational programs to healthcare professionals
www.aafp.org American Academy of Family Physicians website for professionals
http://cms.hhs.gov Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) home page.
www.aahpm.org American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Medicine. An organization of physicians dedicated to the advancement of hospice and palliative medicine, its practice, research and education.
http://health.nih.gov/ National Institutes of Health
www.hpna.org Hospice & Palliative Nurses Association is a national organization representing hospice and palliative nurses.
www.hospicefoundation.org Hospice Foundation of America is a nonprofit organization that promotes hospice care and works to educate professionals and the families they serve in issues relating to caregiving, terminal illness, loss and bereavement.
www.ampainsoc.org The American Pain Society's mission is to advance pain-related research, education, treatment and professional practice.
www.capcmssm.org The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) site will provide technical assistance to hospital and health systems interested in planning and establishing palliative care services.
http://epec.net EPEC is supported by a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that is designed to educate all physicians on the essential clinical competencies required to provide quality end-of-life care.
www.aacn.nche.edu/elnec The American Association of Colleges of Nursing's (AACN) End of Life Nursing Education Consortium's (ELNEC) program. A national education program designed to develop a core of expert nursing educators and to coordinate national nursing efforts in end-of-life care.
www.eperc.mcw.edu This website is intended to assist physician educators and others in locating high quality, peer-reviewed training materials. Search for educational materials indexed by end-of-life care topic areas and educational formats.

HIPAA Information

http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/admnsimp/ This is the official CMS website for information for HIPAA and it contains all the final rules and proposed rules in their entirety.
www.hipaadvisory.com Phoenix Health Systems presents this site and it is well known for white papers, updates, listserves, and up-to-date HIPAA information.
http://snip.wedi.org Resources for what is happening statewide, regionally, and nationally with implementation of the HIPAA regulations. Official source of white papers and discussion forum for all providers.