What’s New?
Center for Healthy Aging (CHA) in coordination with the Nevada Public Health Foundation has just completed a series of Focus Groups to gather input from Nevada consumers and providers about their experience obtaining and utilizing health programs, facilities, and services. The responses were collected and provided to the Nevada State Health Division to improve the Bureau of Health Care Quality and Compliance web-site to make looking for and getting information on health facilities and services easier and more user-friendly.
Click here to view the report: Nevada_Health_Division_Focus_Group_Report_122010 (Final)
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