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.
   http://www.aha.org/

Coalition to Protect America's Health Care
   Information on how the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 is hurting America's hospitals.
   http://www.protecthealthcare.org

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.
   http://www.hpolicy.duke.edu/cyberexchange/conversion/truecon.html

Institute for Safe Medical Practices
   Organization that gathers safety data from hospitals and makes recommendations to improve patient safety in hospitals.
   http://www.ismp.org/

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.
   http://www.naph.org/

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.
   http://www.nauh.org/

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.
   http://www.leapfroggroup.org/