AHA Guide data in print and on a CD.  Provides comprehesive, accurate information on 6,500 hospitals, 400+ health care systems, networks and alliances, 700 health care organizations and associations, 700 governmental agencies and 3,000 other accredited providers.

 

The Guide is the most comprehensive directory available with data sourced from the AHA's Fiscal year 2011 AHA Annual Survey of Hospitals, AHA memberhsip data and other sources.  Beyond contact and demographic information, this encyclopedic directory includes exclusive hospital and health care statistics.  Hospital profiles include physician arrangements,hospital organizational structure, primary service data, approval code/accreditations, and Medicare Provider Identification. 

 

You can locate in-depth information on 148 hospital service lines and details on utilization characteristics (e.g., beds, admissions, census, outpatient visits, births, expenses). and Medicare Provider Identifications.  It contains approval codes from a number of organizations.  The CD allows limited search such as by hospital name.  You can view and print complete hospital profiles; link directly to hospital web sites, print sections of the directory from the PDF that is included.