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| National Laboratory for the Study of Rural Telemedicine
The University of Iowa -- College of Medicine
208 Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
Iowa City, IA 52242-1098
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| The National Laboratory for the Study of Rural Telemedicine is a project that utilizes Wide Area Networking (WAN) and Local Area Networking (LAN) technologies in order to further its mission, goals and objectives. These components together are referred to as the NLM testbed. Because the testbed functions as the main delivery vehicle for the project, its reliability, availability and security can not be minimized. The Telecommunication Services Department of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics has been instrumental in the design, implementation and on-going operations of the current testbed infrastructure and will continue to provide this support under the new National Library of Medicine contract.
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| Shared Mental Health Care in Canada
c/o Nick Kates
Hamilton Family Health Team
10 George Street, 3rd floor
Hamilton, ON L8P 1C8
Canada
905/667-4848
nkates@mcmaster.ca
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| In 1997, after the publication of the conjoint report on Shared Mental Health Care in Canada, the Canadian Psychiatric Association and the College of Family Physicians of Canada established a collaborative working group to implement the recommendations of this report.
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| The National League for Nursing [NLN] advances quality nursing education that prepares the nursing workforce to meet the needs of diverse populations in an ever-changing health care environment. It is composed of:
- Over 2000 nursing schools and health care agencies
- Some 10,000 individual members: nurses, educators administrators, consumers, and students
- State and regional constituent leagues
The NLN is the eading accrediting body for all types of nursing education programs within the US and its territories and the major provider of testing services for nursing schools, from pre-admission through graduation, as well as certification for specialty nursing groups and health care institutions.
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National Legal Support for Elderly People with Mental Disabilities
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| National Legal Support for Elderly People with Mental Disabilities
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
1101 15-th Street
Suite 1212
Washington, DC 20005
202/467-5730
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| The National Legal Support for Elderly People With Mental Disabilities project trains advocates to meet the needs of older mentally disabled people, ensuring that they can age at home with supports that strengthen their individual capabilities.
The project:
- Writes, produces, and disseminates publications on issues facing older people with mental disabilities
- Trains protection and advocacy attorneys in legal aid on laws that protect older people with mental disabilities
- Provides technical assistance to attorneys and advocates and case consultation to attorneys
- Organizes workshops for the National Joint Conference on Law and Aging and a conference for the National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems
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| US National Library of Medicine
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894
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| The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), located on the southeast corner of the campus of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest library dealing with a single scientific/professional topic. It cares for over 4.5 million holdings (including books, journal, reports, manuscripts and audio-visual items). The NLM offers extensive on-line information services (dealing with clinical care, toxicology and environmental health, and basic biomedical research), has several active research and development components (including an extramural grants program), houses an extensive History of Medicine collection, and provides several programs designed to improve the nation's medical library system.
The NLM is the hub of a National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), consisting of:
- 4000 "basic unit" libraries (primarily in hospitals)
- 125 Resource Libraries (at medical schools)
- 8 Regional libraries (covering all geographical regions of the U.S.)
Approximately 2 million interlibrary loans are fulfilled annually through this system. The library's Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS), a pioneering effort in rapid on-line bibliographic retrieval first devised in the 1960s, continues to provide an avenue for preparing bibliographic publications such as Index Medicus, as well as providing access to on-line bibliographic retrieval.
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| National Long-Term Care Resource Center
Institute for Health Services Research
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
420 Delaware SE
Box 197 Mayo
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612/624-5171
612/624-5434 fax
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| The National Long-Term Care Resource Center, a collaboration between the University of Minnesota Institute for Health Services Research and the National Academy of State Health Policy, assists the aging network to develop, administer, monitor, and refine community-based long-term-care systems reform.
The Center's three focal areas are ethics and decisionmaking (in the issues of rights, risks, and responsibilities); links between long-term care and acute care, rehabilitation, and health care reform; and assessment and case management (emphasizing clinical applications).
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| National Managed Health Care Congress
71 Second Avenue
2nd Floor
Waltham, MA 02451
781/663-6000
781/663-6414 fax
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| National Managed Health Care Congress (NMHCC) is the nation's largest producer of educational conferences and expositions solely dedicated to health care issues. NMHCC also offers in-house training programs, a variety of publications, audio packages, and the only international society for disease management professionals.
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| National Medical Association
1012 Tenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001-4492
202/347-1895
202/842-3293 fax
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| The National Medical Association [NMA] is the "collective voice" of African-American physicians. It takes special interest in parity and justice in medicine and the elimination of disparities in health.
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| The National Membership Committee on Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work [NMCOP] is affiliated with The Clinical Social Work Federation. The aims and purposes of NMCOP are:
- To represent and protect the standing and advancement of psychoanalytic social work practitioners and educators
- To provide an organizational identity for social work professionals engaged in psychoanalytically informed practice
- To promote and disseminate the understanding of psychoanalytic theory and knowledge within the social work profession and the public
- To effect liaisons with other organizations and professions who share common objectives for social work and the advancement of psychoanalytic theory and practice
- To advocate for the highest standards of practice and for quality mental health care for the public
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| Mental Health America
2001 North Beauregard Street 6th Floor
Alexandria, VA 22311
800/969-6642
703/684-7722
703/684-5968 fax
800/433-5959 TTY
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| Mental Health America [MHA] (formerly the National Mental Health Association [NMHA]), through its national office and more than 320 affiliates nationwide, is dedicated to improving the mental health of all individuals and achieving victory over mental illnesses.
Founded in 1909 by Clifford W Beers, a former psychiatric patient, MHA is the nation's only citizen volunteer advocacy organization dedicated to addressing all aspects of mental health and mental illnesses. Its membership includes people in recovery from mental illness, their families and healthcare clinicians and researchers.
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National Mental Health Consumers' Association [NMHCA]
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| National Mental Health Consumers' Association
4401-A Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 308
Washington, DC 20008
216/241-3400
216/861-5067 fax
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| The National Mental Health Consumers' Association [NMHCA], founded in 1985, is the first and largest national organization of mental health consumers, with representation from the 10 Federal Community Support Program regions. NMHCA advocates at the national level for consumer representation, patients' rights, and consumer-run programs.
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| The National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse
1211 Chestnut Street
Suite 1207
Philadelphia, PA 19107
800/553-4539
215/751-1810
215/636-6312 fax
info@mhselfhelp.org
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| The National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse [NMHCSHC] is a consumer-run national technical assistance center established in 1986 and funded in part by a federal grant from the Center for Mental Health Services. It is committed to helping mental health consumers improve their lives through self-help and advocacy. Specifically, NMHCSHC helps consumers plan, provide, and evaluate mental health and community support services.
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| National Mental Health Development Unit
Wellington House,
133-155 Waterloo Road
London SE1 8UG
United Kingdom
+44/20/7972 4803
+44/20/797 24349 fax
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| The National Mental Health Development Unit [NMHDU] was launched in 2009. It consists of a small central team and a range of programmes funded by both the United Kingdom Department of Health and the National Health Service [NHS] to provide national support for implementing mental health policy by advising on national and international best practice to improve mental health and mental health services.
Objectives - provide:
- Specialist expertise in priority areas of policy and delivery
- Effective knowledge transfer on research, evidence and good practice
- Translation of national policies into practical deliverables that achieve outcomes
- Coordination of national activity to help regional and local implementation
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| National Multiple Sclerosis Society
733 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10017-3288
212/476-0457
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| The National Multiple Sclerosis Society is the oldest, largest nonprofit group fighting MS, supporting more research and serving more people than any national voluntary MS organization in the world. It is the center of a national network of 90 chapters.
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