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CONSUMER GUIDES

Consumer Guides give you key information on health insurance, hospitals, long-term care providers and physicians. VHI Consumer Guides provide the reader with a general understanding of the issues, questions and choices available when choosing health care services. Our guides include lists and worksheets with questions to ask when making these important health care choices. Lists of resources including other publications and web sites may be provided.

VHI Consumer Guides include:
  • Obstetrical Services - Helps parents-to-be learn about the birth process, choices they may face and performance and quality of hospitals and physicians that provide the care. Our third version was released in August 2009.

  • Cardiac Care - Provides information about heart disease and compares the quality of heart care at Virginia hospitals.

  • Virginia Hospitals - How hospitals came to be, todays hospitals, your rights as a patient, choosing a hospital and more.

  • Health Insurance Options - Trouble understanding the differences among HMOs, PPOs and other types of health insurance? This guide covers the features and benefits of plans with tools and resources to help you choose the right plan for your needs.

  • Long Term Care: A Consumers Guide - The most comprehensive publication on Long-Term Care. Adult day care, assisted living, continuing care retirement communities, home care and nursing facilities. Find the right type of long-term care for your needs. How to evaluate a facility. Where to go for more information and more.
VHI Consumer Guides are free on our website in downloadable Adobe Acrobat files. Online viewable versions may be available. Employers and other may also choose bulk purchases for selected guides.

Questions? Call VHI toll free at (877) VHI-INFO or email info@vhi.org



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