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Research and Markets: The American Hospital Register.


Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers

DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 22, 2004

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com) has announced the addition of The American Hospital Register to their offering.

The American Hospital Register (AHR AHR Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor
AHR American Historical Review (Journal of the American History Association)
AHR Anchor
AHR airway hyper-responsiveness
AHR Assisted Human Reproduction
AHR Air-Conditioning Heating Refrigeration
) is a comprehensive and detailed database of American hospitals. Shipped as an easy-to-use CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc.
CD-ROM
 in full compact disc read-only memory

Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser).
, the AHR contains information on over 5,800 hospitals in 50 states (plus the district of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). ).

The American Hospital Register covers 137 medical specialities and services split across nine main sections:

Medical

Surgery

Psychiatry

Laboratories

Diagnostics

Alternative

Therapies

Imaging

Storage

Equipment

Internet

Types hospital types covered:

- Acute

- Psychiatric

- LTAC/Rehabilitation (LTAC LTAC Long-Term Acute Care
LTAC Literary Translators' Association of Canada
LTAC Light Tactical
 is Long Term Acute Care)

Four Ownerships:

- Public (State or Federal)

- Private non-profit

- Private for profit

- Military

Examples of typical usage: - Find all the small private-for-profit hospitals in the East Coast states and create a mailing list An automated e-mail system on the Internet, which is maintained by subject matter. There are thousands of such lists that reach millions of individuals and businesses. New users generally subscribe by sending an e-mail with the word "subscribe" in it and subsequently receive all new .

- Identify all the private non-profit hospitals with a CT scanner CT scanner
n.
See CAT scanner.
, categorise them by size and export the data as an ASCII file.

- Create a telephone list for all the hospitals in California List of hospitals in California (U.S. state), grouped by county and sorted by hospital name. Alameda County
  • Alameda Hospital - Alameda, California
  • Alta Bates Medical Center - Berkeley, California
  • Washington Hospital - Fremont, California
 with a dermatology department.

- Print address details for mailing labels of all the acute hospitals in the West Coast states with more than 200 beds which do not have a diagnostic laboratory.

The easy-to-use CD-ROM interface allows you to:

- Search within any combination of 50 states plus the District of Columbia.

- For each state select the whole state or specific towns.

- Select any combination of 137 characteristics.

- Select any combination of hospital type and ownership.

- Restrict search to towns and/or hospitals with specific sizes.

- Identify hospitals by ZIP code, hospital name and the name of the town. For example, easily find how many hospitals are in the zip code area beginning with 54. Find all the hospitals with "HealthSouth" in their name. Find every hospital in every town called Springfield.

- Export information as a comma delimited, tab delimited or Excel file.

- Create a HTML HTML
 in full HyperText Markup Language

Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web.
 file with the data set out in a table.

- Contact hospitals - "One Click" option to email or visit a hospital web site.

Location and Contact Details:

Hospital Name

Street Address

Town

Zip Code

Region

Telephone Number

Fax Number

E-mail

Web Address

Number of Beds

Type

Ownership

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c1421
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