Pregnancy & Birthing Center of Excellence Now Available in EBSCO’s Health Library™

IPSWICH, Mass. — February 14, 2006 — EBSCO Publishing’s Health Library™ provides access to comprehensive coverage of health, wellness, and other medical-related topics presented in an easy-to-understand manner. Keeping this in mind, EBSCO Publishing is pleased to announce an optional resource within the Health Library database that will benefit pregnancy & birthing centers and their patients. The Pregnancy & Birthing Center of Excellence is an additional component that can be added onto existing Health Library subscriptions.

The Pregnancy & Birthing Center of Excellence is an easy and convenient way for hospitals and other medical facilities to offer additional patient education resources on their website to benefit their communities. As a way to provide patient education services a hospital will take pride in offering this resource as it is written at a level that is easy to understand and comprehend. As people are becoming more interested in health education, health services and medical procedures, the need for accurate, current and reliable information is vital. What better place to access health information then a hospital’s webpage?

From pre-conception to labor & delivery to perinatal care, the Pregnancy & Birthing Center of Excellence (COE) provides the highest quality patient information content.

Detailed Classroom articles offer an overview of pregnancy and the birth process.

These articles are complemented by a wealth of additional resources including but not limited to: condition & procedure fact sheets, in-depth reports, alternative treatments, wellness articles, research in the news, interactive tools, and a glossary. Many of the articles include medical illustrations that assist in understanding specific treatments or conditions related to pregnancy and birthing.

All of the evidence-based content included in Health Library and the Pregnancy & Birthing Center of Excellence is written by experienced health & medical writers and independently reviewed by medically-credentialed experts. This process allows the content in Pregnancy & Birthing COE to receive the prestigious URAC accreditation seal. Furthermore, all of the data in Pregnancy & Birthing COE is reviewed and updated on a regular basis to reflect the most recent information and research available.

For more information on Health Library, please visit: www.epnet.com/biomedical

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