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Coalition to Protect America's Health Care  - http://www.protecthealthcare.org  Information on how the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 is hurting America's hospitals.  Duke Center for Health Policy: Hospital Conversions  - http://www.hpolicy.duke.edu/cyberexchange/conversion/truecon.html  Hospital conversion in the marketplace and the policy world. The growing trend towards mergers and acquisitions in the hospital industry.  National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems  - http://www.naph.org/  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.  National Association of Urban Hospitals (NAUH)  - http://www.nauh.org/  A coalition of private safety-net urban hospitals who have joined to assure adequate reimbursement from public payers such as Medicaid & Medicare.  Victims of Cedars  - http://www.victimsofcedars.com/  What are people saying about hospitals in the news and print ads? Southern California-area hospitals graded by the public.  The Leapfrog Group  - http://www.leapfroggroup.org/  An organization of health insurance companies that is promoting Computerized Physician Order Entry to hospitals as a way to decrease medication errors.  Institute for Safe Medical Practices  - http://www.ismp.org/  Organization that gathers safety data from hospitals and makes recommendations to improve patient safety in hospitals.  American Hospital Association  - http://www.aha.org/  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.