Alcestis is an Internet based mortality data collection network that provides medical examiners and coroners with the ability to electronically manage case information while incurring none of the development costs. Alcestis is available to all ME/coroner offices throughout the United States. This initiative creates a nation-wide repository of medical examiner data with medical examiner services organized at the county or state level.

Medical examiners, coroners and researchers interested in additional information can contact Joan Moore at (517) 324-8396 or jmoore@mphi.org.

The Michigan Advocate was created in 2000 to provide information and resources to VOCA Grantee-agencies and other crime victim programs and advocates in Michigan and throughout the country. This publication strives to help professionals maintain comprehensive and quality services to victims of crime and to inform advocates of broader issue affecting crime victim services.

The Michigan Advocate is published twice yearly and has recently evolved to an electronic format allowing for broader distribution of news relevant to crime victim services.

The Institute for Nursing Centers (INC), convened by MPHI, is a national organization of key stakeholders promoting direct access to high quality, affordable, and cost-effective health care service to the nations communities. The INC works to create and conceptualize marketing products that will promote the sustainability and effectiveness of Nurse Managed Health Centers. In addition, key advocacy, policy, and legislative issues are identified that relate to making nurse managed health centers a viable option in communities across the nation. The INC has developed and manages a national, centralized database related to Nurse Managed Health Centers that has established clinical and financial benchmarks for best practices.

The Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Online Training (www.mitbitraining.org) is a free, self-paced course that provides critical information about brain injury in an understandable and practical way. For completing this course, professionals in the areas of Case Management, Education, Nursing, and Social Work now have the opportunity to earn continuing education (CE) credits toward their respective Michigan licenses. For case management professionals, 3 Clock Hours are available; for education professionals, 0.3 State Board Continuing Education Units; for nursing professionals, 3 Contact Hours; and for social work professionals, 3 Instructional Continuing Education Hours.

The TBI project produces many other educational materials for persons with traumatic brain injury and their families. They are are available at www.michigan.gov/tbi, or on the Publications & Reports section of this website.

In September 2005, MPHI-CDMTR was charged with the responsibility of maintaining and managing the SCN which includes collecting, standardizing, and analyzing patient data from participating health centers and representing nearly 1.6 million patients annually.