Resources
Ascendant Healthcare Partners is your partner for transforming your community for healthier lives. We our happy to share our extensive health experience with you. Here are tools and resources that you may find useful:
Center for Disease Control & Prevention
CDC increases the health security of our nation. As the nation’s health protection agency, CDC saves lives and protects people from health threats.
County Health Ranking & Roadmaps
How healthy is your community? The annual Rankings provide a revealing snapshot of how health is influenced by where we live, learn, work and play. They provide a starting point for change in communities.
Healthy People 2030
https://health.gov/healthypeople
Healthy People 2030 sets data-driven national objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade.
Health Resources & Services Administration (HERSA)
Tens of millions of Americans receive quality, affordable health care and other services through HRSA's 90-plus programs and more than 3,000 grantees.
Institute for Healthcare Advancement
Includes a simplified advanced directive form written at a fifth-grade reading level in multiple languages.
Medicare Rights Center
This toll-free consumer hotline provides free counseling services about Medicare including the prescription drug benefit
National Association of County & City Officials (NACCHO)
Your Local Health Department’s Biggest Advocate. At NACCHO, we strive to be a leader, partner, catalyst, and voice for local health departments around the nation.
American Urological Association Foundation
The Foundation provides information on the prevention, detection, management, and cure of urologic diseases
Office of Minority Health
This federal agency works to develop health policies and programs that help to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health
Family Caregiver Alliance
This site provides programs that offers information and support to caregivers.
National Alliance for Caregiver
Online support and resources for the public and caregiving professionals
National Council on Aging
Online resource offers a searchable list of programs that can help with healthcare costs
Partnership for Prescription Assistance
Provides a directory of prescription assistance programs.
The Public Health National Center for Innovations
The 10 Essential Public Health Services provide a framework for public health to protect and promote the health of all people in all communities.
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services.