Medicare Drug Benefit Plan Starts Jan 2006
- Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage (Medicare)
Everyone with Medicare, regardless of income, health status, or prescription drug usage, will have access to prescription drug coverage beginning on January 1, 2006. Call 1-800 MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227). TTY users should call 1-877-486-2048. View the handbook MEDICARE & YOU 2006 [pdf]. - State Health Insurance Plan (SHIP) SHIP is a national program available in every state that offers free one-to-one counseling and assistance to people and their families with Medicare questions via phone or face-to-face contact.
- Benefits Check Up National Council on Aging's free online screening service to help seniors find assistance for health care and other necessities.
- Resources on the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit (Kaiser Family Foundation) Resources for background and a current overview on the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.
- Medicare Drug Benefit in the News See reports from Google News on the "Medicare Drug Benefit" as it is implemented.
Access to the Health Sciences Library
January marks the 1-year anniversary of the Health Sciences Library's new entrance, T-334. This door is on the 3rd floor (T-334) of the Health Sciences Building located at the east end of the building off the inner Nursing Courtyard.
After-hours, i.e. evenings, weekends, and holidays, this is the only unlocked entrance to the building. For security purposes, other entrances, as well as internal corridors are locked after-hours. To move between these corridors or enter through one of the other building entrances, you must have (and carry!) a photo ID card and access card. Your health sciences department can request an access card for you. All others must proceed around the building and enter through the T-wing courtyard entrance, T-334.
For more information see the Building Managment page http://depts.washington.edu/hsasf/building/index.html.
News
- HSL Storage Items on the Move
Over the summer, HSL is moving over 1.5 miles of materials from on-site to off-site storage. While items are in transit, they will be temporarily unavailable. Once the materials are in their new home, they can be requested and delivered to HSL using the Request/Place Hold button in the UW Libraries Catalog record. Thank you for your patience during this time.
- Pay HSL Document Services Invoices Online
You can now pay your Health Sciences Libraries' invoices from Document Services online with either a Visa or Mastercard. Follow the Order Articles/Books link under the Help tab in Healthlinks. It's secure, fast and easy!
- Database Changes
- Databases coming:
~ Newsbank Access World News (newspapers)
~ Academic Search Complete (magazine & journal articles)
~ Business Source Complete (business resources) - Departing Databases:
~ Research Library (magazine & journal articles)
~ ABI/Inform (business resources)
~ Current Contents Connect (serials TOC)
- Databases coming:
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