Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Nebraska State Resources:
 

1. State Insurance Commissioner:

To safeguard those affected by the business of insurance through the fulfillment of our statutory obligations and by promoting the fair and just treatment of all parties to insurance transactions.

http://www.doi.ne.gov/forms/complaint.htm

2. State Medical Board:

The Board of Medicine and Surgery advises the Department of Health and Human Services Regulation and Licensure on all issues related to the regulation of physicians.

http://www.hhs.state.ne.us/crl/medical/medsur/locum/complaints.htm

3. State Minority Office:

The Office of Minority Health (OMH) works to equalize health outcomes and eliminate health disparities in Nebraska.

http://www.hhs.state.ne.us/minorityhealth/

4. State Nursing Board:

The Nebraska Board of Nursing recognizes and accepts its obligation to protect the consumers of nursing services from unsafe, incompetent or substandard nursing care.

http://www.hhs.state.ne.us/crl/nursing/rn-lpn/complaints.htm

5. State Midwifery Organization:

Unable to locate.

6. Friends of Midwifery:

Our Nebraska Friends of Midwives website is:  http://www.nemidwives.org/

Our NFOM facebook page is:  http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8960247121

And our NFOM e-list is here:  http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/nebraskafriendsofmidwives/

7. State Healthy Start or Associated Improved Pregnancy Program/Director's email:

Omaha Healthy Start, an initiative of Charles Drew Health Center, is one of the 96 federally funded Healthy Start projects in the United States, which promotes community-based maternal and child health programs, particularly those that focus on the reduction of infant mortality, low birth weight and racial disparities in perinatal outcomes.
 
http://www.omahahealthystart.org/

8. State Pregnant Patient's Bill of Rights or Patient's Bill of Rights:

Unable to locate.

9. State Medicaid Complaint Information:

http://www.dhhs.ne.gov/reg/forms/1.pdf

 

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