Health Information Links
Because Mercy Tyler Hospital cares about your health and your well-being, we are providing links to other websites that may help with your health questions and concerns.
- Adult Day Services - Day services for functionally and/or cognitively impaired adults
- Alternative Medicine Homepage - Source for information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative, integrative therapies.
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Facts for families
- American Cancer Society
- American Heart Association - Healthy Heart Facts
- American Pain Foundation - Information resource center for people with pain
- American Psychological Association - How to help one's family and self
- Balloon Sinuplasty - Learn more about Balloon Sinuplasty and the treatment of chronic sinusitis.
- Cancer.gov
- CancerNet - PDQ's for Patients and Healthcare Professionals
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- CFSAN/Office of Nutritional Products, Labeling, and Dietary Supplements - Make Your Calories Count is an interactive learning program that provides consumers with information to help plan a healthful diet while managing calorie intake.
- Clinicaltrials.gov - Clinical Trials
- Drug Interaction Checker - see for yourself which drug combinations might be harmful
- Eldercare Locator - Community Assistance for Seniors
- Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA) - Public voice for caregivers
- Family Doctor - Health information from the American Academy of Family Physicians
- Federal Emergency Management Agency - FEMA, and FEMA for Kids
- G r e e n L i g h t P V™ L a s e r - Photoselective Vaporization of the Prostate (PVP) using the GreenLight PV™ laser system is a revolutionary technique for treating Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH), or enlargement of the prostate.
- Healthfinder.gov/
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Healthline™ Online - Search the Web's Best Health Sites
- HIV InSite
- HOMECARE Online - Home Health Agencies - National Association for Home Care and Hospice
- Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania
- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
- Last Acts - A National Coalition to Improve End of Life Care
- Local Hospital's Offering Maternity Services
- Kidshealth
- Mayo Clinic
- Medicare.gov - The Official U.S. Government Site for People with Medicare
- MEDEM: an information partnership of medical societies
- MedlinePlus- English | Spanish - National Library of Medicine consumer health gateway
- MedicineNet - Reliable Doctor-Produced Health and Medical Information
- National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC) - Support for family caregivers and the professionals who serve them
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill - The Nations Voice on Mental Illness
- National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers - Info for geriatric care managers
- National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - Research on mind, brain, and behavior
- National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA) - Supports the needs of family caregivers
- National Mental Health Association - Addressing aspects of mental health & mental illness
- New Age Examiner Newspaper
- NOAH - New York Online Access to Health
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The Consumer and Patient Health Information Section - (CAPHIS) of MLA evaluates web sites based on the following criteria: credibility, sponsorship/authorship, content, audience, currency, disclosure, purpose, links, design, interactivity, and disclaimers.
- Nursing Home Compare - detailed information about the past performance of every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the country.
- PA Association of Area Agencies on Aging
- PA Department of Health
- Patients Like Me
- PA West Nile Control Program - West Nile Virus Information
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Patient's Guide - A Patient's Guide to Healthcare Information on the Internet
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- Personal Health Record - Learn more about personal health information (medical records)
- PubMed - A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
- www.phcqa.org - Compiles, from a variety of sources, outcome and quality data for all of Pennslvania's acute care hospitals in a single location designed to help patients and consumers make better health care choices. If you have any questions about this information, please contact Brenna Evans, RN, director of quality.
- Put It In Writing Brochure from the American Hospital Association-Provides basic facts about advance directives and encourages patients to explore their preferences for care at the end of life.
- Radiology Information Resource - Designed to answer your questions related to the many radiologic procedures and therapies available to you and your family.
- Rotary
- RX List | FDA - Drug Information
- San Fransisco City Clinic
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- United Way
- Virtual Hospital - Health Information, Online Training and More
- Visualdxhealth.com - Skin Disease Pictures and Health Information.
- WebMD - Consumers and Professionals
- Websters Dictionary
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Wyoming County Red Cross