The HHS

SUMMARY: The companies that the HHS is in charge of and what the HHS does. Giving both the budget and the employees in the HHS then divided into the different sectors of the company.

TOPIC: Should the government arrange for hospitals to network to help standardize the cost of health care?

CATEGORY: Institutional

TITLE: HHS: What We Do

PUBLICATION: HHS

AUTHOR:Charles E. Johnson, Acting Secretary

LOCATION: hhs.gov

ACCESSED: February 5, 2009

SUPPORT:U.S. Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Indian Health Service (IHS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration on Aging (AOA)

AUDIENCE & AGENDA: Showing where the Government’s money is going in the health care industry is going. Funded by the government, the site is for a user that wants to find out something about their health care.

USEFULNESS: With links to the different sites that would give you more information about a certain part of the health system, this site is the opener for what the government is paying for. The statistics that are given also shows who is in charge of each division and how many people are employed in that section.

WORKS CITED: http://www.nih.gov/, http://www.usphs.gov/, www.hhs.gov, Google