Des Moines Register Contact Information: Randy Essex Editor Mailing Address P.O. Box 957 Des Moines IA 50304-0957 Physical Address: 715 Locust St. Des Moines IA 50309 Local: (515) 284-8000 Iowa: (800) 532-1455 Outside Iowa: (800) 247-5346 Email: essexr@news.demreg.com Web: http://www.dmregister.com/news/ categories/health- index.html |
 Health sectoion of the Des Moines Register newspaper. |
The Virtual Hospital is a digital health sciences library created in 1992 at the University of Iowa to help meet the information needs of health care providers and patients. The goal of the Virtual Hospital digital library is to make the Internet a useful medical reference and health promotion tool for health care providers and patients. The Virtual Hospital digital library contains hundreds of books and brochures for health care providers and patients. |
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Department of Human Services Contact Information: The Iowa Department of Human Services Hoover State Office Building Des Moines, IA 50319 Telephone: 800-972-2017 Email: dhswebmaster @dhs.state.ia.us Web: http://www.dhs.state. ia.us/ |
The Department of Human Services (DHS) believes in working with Iowans: those people who receive services, the taxpayers who fund the services and the people who provide services. DHS believes in working with others to meet the unique needs of individuals and help all Iowans become healthy, safe, stable, and self sufficient. The department's primary responsibilities are to help and empower individuals and families to become increasingly self-sufficient and productive. The department provides these services to approximately 650,000 Iowans through our partnership with the federal government and our state and local governments. The department is collaborating and providing leadership to build a comprehensive system of basic services and supports to serve all Iowans into the future. |
Iowa Department of Public Health Contact Information: Stephen C. Gleason, D. O., Director Lucas State Office Building Des Moines, IA 50319-0075 Telephone: 515-281-5787 Web: http://www.idph.state.ia.us/ |
The Iowa State Board of Health is the policy-making body for the Iowa Department of Public Health, has the powers and duties to adopt, promulgate, amend and repeal rules and regulations, and advisers or makes recommendations to the governor, General Assembly, and the director of Public Health, relative to public health, hygiene, and sanitation. Under the direction of the director, the Iowa Department of Public Health exercises general supervision of the state's public health; promotes public hygiene and sanitation; and, unless otherwise provided, enforces law relating to public health. |
Iowa Health Fact Book 1999 Contact Information: Martha F. Jones Deputy Director Center for Public Health Statistics College of Public Health 2215 Westlawn The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 Email: factbook@mail.public- health.uiowa.edu Web: http://www.public-health.uiowa. edu/Factbook/ |
The 1999 Iowa Health Fact Book is produced for use by care providers, health policy makers, and public health practitioners in the state of Iowa. The information provided within the Fact Book is designed to address the needs of these individuals and others who are concerned with outcomes, health behaviors, resources, and descriptions of the state demographically. Most tables and graphs in the text focus on the county as the principal unit of observation. This should facilitate the use of the demographic and health outcome data by those individuals who wish to make county-to-county comparisons or who wish to contrast an individual county to the state as a whole. |
Regional Health Education Center Contact Information: Regional Health Education Center 1000 4th St. SW Mason City, IA 50401 Telephone: (515) 422-7100, or (800) 433-3883 Email: manningj@mercyhealth.com Web: http://www.niacc.cc.ia.us/ rhec/rhechome.htm |
A partnership of two of North Iowa's largest institutions, North Iowa Mercy Health Center and North Iowa Area Community College, we are the first cooperative effort of its type in Iowa, the result of determination to provide the best health care education programming in the most efficient and cost-effective way. Web site features a section dedicated to public health that contains list of support groups, childbirth education, and four health articles. |
Siouxland Health Care Center Contact Information 515 Pavonia Street P.O. Box 118 Sioux City, Iowa 51102 Email: edi@siouxcityjournal.com Web: http://www.siouxcityjournal. com/Health/ |
Web site contains news stories, and health information from the Sioux City Journal, and a very large list of Health Care providers. |
Iowa Health Care Association Contact Information: Iowa Health Care Association 6750 Westown Parkway, Suite 100 West Des Moines, IA 50266-7726 Telephone: 515.327.5020 or 800.422.3106 Email: jknust@iowahealthcare.org Web: http://www.iowahealthcare.org/ |
Established in 1950, the Iowa Health Care Association (IHCA) is a nonprofit trade association whose members are comprised of nursing facilities, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living, and residential care facilities. Member facilities are independently owned, corporately owned, proprietary, or nonprofit organizations. Over 24,000 dedicated and caring staff provide care for over 25,000 geriatric, pediatric, mentally retarded and developmentally disabled persons. IHCA is dedicated to enhancing long term care in our state by providing leadership, advocacy, information and education to the broad range of providers, consumers, government agencies, and others which comprise the long term care community. IHCA continuously strives to improve the quality of care in Iowa's long term care communities. |
