Finding Health Care

Becoming an Involved Health Care Consumer

Places to get information about medical conditions and hospital quality--an important first step in getting better health care. Use this information to ask your doctor, nurse or pharmacist questions about your condition. Becoming more involved in your own health care will help with getting the right treatment at the right time in the right place.
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Find A Health Center

Federally-funded health centers care for you, even if you have no health insurance. You pay what you can afford based on your income. There are health centers in most cities and many rural areas.
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Guide to Choosing Quality Health Care

Guide is based on research about the information people want and need when choosing health plans, doctors, treatments, hospitals, and long-term care.
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Guide to Understanding Healthcare Reform for People with Disabilities

The United Spinal Association and the National Spinal Cord Injury Association have issued a guide on healthcare and insurance reforms that explains how they improve the lives of people with disabilities. The Impact of Health Care Reform on People with Disabilities has information about insurance market reforms; mandatory health plan coverage provisions; home- and community-based services; Medicare outpatient therapy caps and Medicaid eligibility requirements; and the new standards that ensure medical equipment in doctors' offices and other medical facilities are accessible. For more information on this subject read Health Reform for Americans with Disabilities in PDF format.

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HealthFinder.gov

Helps you locate a doctor or other health care provider, health center, home health care or hospital near you.
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Hospital Compare

This tool provides information on how well hospitals care for all their adult patients relating to certain conditions or procedures. This information will help you compare the quality of care hospitals provide.
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Information Tool Gives Consumers More Control Over Their Own Health Care

HealthCare.gov lets consumers take control of their health care by connecting them to information about quality, affordable health care coverage. HealthCare.gov is a database of health coverage options--from Medicare to the Pre-Existing Conditions Insurance Plan, and information from more than 1,000 private insurance plans. HealthCare.gov answers questions that relate to people with disabilities and health care, and also has information about insurance plans and community services in every state. Take a video tour of this website.

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National Center for Benefits Outreach & Enrollment

Helps organizations enroll seniors and younger adults with disabilities with limited means into the benefits programs for which they are eligible so that they can remain healthy and improve the quality of their lives.
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National Long-Term Care Ombudsman Resource Center

Find an advocate for residents of nursing homes, board and care homes and assisted living facilities. Ombudsmen provide information about how to find a facility and what to do to get quality care. They are trained to resolve problems.
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