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Hospitals Leading the Way to a Healthier America
Hospitals have always been at the heart of community health empowering healthier, happier lives for all.
AHA Launches New Multimedia Advertising Campaign to Promote Hospitals
The campaign includes a commercial that will run on national, cable, and digital TV and digital advertising.
New Resources Spotlight Crucial Role of Rural Hospitals and Health Systems
The AHA released new resources to help rural hospitals and health systems share their stories and highlight the vital role they play in their communities.
Creative repurposing saves heart during double-lung transplant
Old technology — applied in new and novel ways — can still be a lifesaver.
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Building Healthy Communities
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital
Torrington, Conn.
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital’s Connecticut Mental Health Center has a certified opiate addiction counselor that helps individuals who are dependent on opiates connect with resources throughout the region.
Building Healthy Communities
Kaiser Permanente Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii
This holiday season, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii is strengthening food security across the Aloha State by supporting nonprofits that expand access to nutritious, locally grown food.
Building Healthy Communities
AdventHealth Littleton
Littleton, Colo.
Lisa Hackett, an occupational therapist at AdventHealth Littleton, understands the profound impact of concussions through personal experience.
Ensuring Access to Care
CommonSpirit Health
Chicago, Ill.
Even the most experienced health care leaders can feel lost as patients. In this conversation, Ji Im, system senior director of community and population health at CommonSpirit Health, explores why seamless navigation, community partnerships and human connection are essential to reducing friction and improving the health care experience.
Ensuring Access to Care
John Muir Health
Walnut Creek, Calif.
Mental health is a top community health need nationwide. In this conversation, John Muir Health's Jesse Tamplen, vice president of care coordination, and Jamie Elmasu, director of community health improvement, explain how community health assessments (CHAs), data-driven planning and nonprofit partnerships, are expanding access to patients who need it most.
Ensuring Access to Care
M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center
Minneapolis
As pharmacy closures accelerate nationwide, M Health Fairview is proving what’s possible when a health system steps up.
Benefiting Communities
Onvida Health
Yuma, Ariz.
The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix and Onvida Health are partnering to establish Arizona’s first rural regional medical school branch in Yuma County.
Benefiting Communities
Morristown Medical Center
Morristown, N.J.
In late November, a man stood outside the Morristown Medical Center holding a handwritten sign that said, "Thank you all in emergency for saving my wife's life. I love you all."
Benefiting Communities
NewYork-Presbyterian
New York, N.Y.
NewYork-Presbyterian announced the launch of its Hospital-at-Home program in November, designed to provide hospital-level care to eligible patients in the comfort of their homes.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center
Las Vegas, Nev.
Las Vegas-based Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center recently completed Nevada’s first FDA‑approved minimally invasive repair for complex aortic aneurysms, a life-threatening condition involving the body’s main artery.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
CommonSpirit Health
Chicago, Ill.
In this conversation, Thomas McGinn, M.D., MPH, senior executive vice president and chief physician executive officer at CommonSpirit Health, shares how the organization aligns leadership, standardizes processes, and uses analytics to reduce variation and improve patient outcomes — work that made CommonSpirit Health a 2025 finalist for the AHA Quest for Quality Prize.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
JPS Health Network
Fort Worth, Texas
Is lived experience one of the most underused tools in health care today?
Prevention and Wellness
Mass General Brigham
Boston, Mass.
Mass General Brigham is investing $9 million through its Community Health Impact Funds to address rising food insecurity in Boston and the surrounding cities of Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop.
Prevention and Wellness
University of Tennessee Medical Center
Knoxville, Tenn.
Naming a baby is a big decision. Naming two babies takes it to another level. Naming two preemies while hundreds of miles from home is something most parents don’t even want to think about, but that’s the situation Isaac and Kaitlin Carver found themselves in when Kaitin’s water broke at 28 weeks pregnant.
Prevention and Wellness
Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital
Virginia Beach, Va.
The Unique Boutique at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital is a store with an exclusive clientele. Shoppers aren’t celebrities or fashion icons; instead, they’re patients who are experiencing medical-related hair loss.
Workforce
Decatur Memorial Hospital
Decatur, Ill.
Decatur Memorial Hospital (DMH) is celebrating a major milestone as its Nurse Anesthesia Program reaches 60 years of educating skilled professionals for Central Illinois and beyond.
Workforce
Loma Linda University Children’s Health
Loma Linda, Calif.,
For Heather Kono, a pediatric oncology nurse at Loma Linda University Children’s Health in California, her journey with the hospital began long before she put on scrubs.
Workforce
Unity Medical Center
Grafton, N.D.
What was once going to be empty space is now used for everything from staff meetings to community medical events, but its main purpose is serving as the Rural Medical Education Center, supporting Unity's commitment to health care education at all levels.
Building Healthy Communities
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital
Torrington, Conn.
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital’s Connecticut Mental Health Center has a certified opiate addiction counselor that helps individuals who are dependent on opiates connect with resources throughout the region.
Building Healthy Communities
Kaiser Permanente Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii
This holiday season, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii is strengthening food security across the Aloha State by supporting nonprofits that expand access to nutritious, locally grown food.
Building Healthy Communities
AdventHealth Littleton
Littleton, Colo.
Lisa Hackett, an occupational therapist at AdventHealth Littleton, understands the profound impact of concussions through personal experience.
Building Healthy Communities
Sharon Hospital
Sharon, Conn.
The Senior Behavioral Health Unit at Sharon Hospital, which serves rural northwestern Connecticut, provides short-term inpatient psychiatric care for adults age 55 or older.
Building Healthy Communities
Avera Behavioral Health Urgent Care, Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center Emergency Department
Sioux Falls, S.D.
Avera is partnering with Emily’s Hope to make free naloxone, also known as Narcan, available at numerous Avera sites across South Dakota.
Building Healthy Communities
Edgerton Hospital and Health Services, Edgerton; Grant Regional Health Center, Lancaster; Reedsburg Area Medical Center, Reedsburg; Richland Hospital, Richland Center; Southwest Health, Platteville; St. Croix Regional Medical Center, St. Croix Falls
Ten independent rural hospitals are establishing the Wisconsin High Value Network to expand access to care, share best practices in serving rural populations and control purchasing costs.
Building Healthy Communities
Intermountain Health St. Vincent Regional Hospital
Billigns, Mont.
Zack Fievet’s life was forever altered in 2024 when a semi-trailer he was inspecting suddenly released its brakes and ran over him, causing devastating injuries.
Building Healthy Communities
Despite decades of progress, lead exposure remains a serious threat to children's health in Cleveland.
Building Healthy Communities
Capital Health Regional Medical Center
Trenton, N.J.
In what local leaders call a “transformational moment for Trenton and the surrounding communities,” Capital Health has unveiled its new Heart and Vascular Center at the Regional Medical Center in Trenton, N.J., a major expansion spanning 12,650 square feet.
Ensuring Access to Care
CommonSpirit Health
Chicago, Ill.
Even the most experienced health care leaders can feel lost as patients. In this conversation, Ji Im, system senior director of community and population health at CommonSpirit Health, explores why seamless navigation, community partnerships and human connection are essential to reducing friction and improving the health care experience.
Ensuring Access to Care
John Muir Health
Walnut Creek, Calif.
Mental health is a top community health need nationwide. In this conversation, John Muir Health's Jesse Tamplen, vice president of care coordination, and Jamie Elmasu, director of community health improvement, explain how community health assessments (CHAs), data-driven planning and nonprofit partnerships, are expanding access to patients who need it most.
Ensuring Access to Care
M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center
Minneapolis
As pharmacy closures accelerate nationwide, M Health Fairview is proving what’s possible when a health system steps up.
Ensuring Access to Care
Tufts Medicine
Boston, Mass.
The Tufts Medicine Center for Health Literacy Research + Practice works to reduce health literacy barriers for patients, families, clinicians and health care organizations.
Ensuring Access to Care
Western Wisconsin Health
Baldwin, Wis.
Eilidh Pederson, CEO at Western Wisconsin Health, shares lessons from her unique birth experience, and outlines how rural hospitals can continue to provide needed access to safe, high-quality maternity health services.
Ensuring Access to Care
Monument Health
Rapid City, S.D.
In this Leadership Dialogue conversation, Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health and 2025 AHA board chair, joins Aimee Kuhlman, vice president of advocacy grassroots and government relations at the AHA, and Paulette Davidson, president and CEO of Monument Health, to unpack what’s at stake.
Ensuring Access to Care
Loma Linda University Children’s Health
Loma Linda, Calif.
Late in her pregnancy, Kati Gyulai received unexpected news: Her baby’s limbs were measuring much shorter than average.
Ensuring Access to Care
Seneca Healthcare District, Modoc Medical Center, Mayers Memorial Hospital District
Plumas, Modoc, and Shasta counties, California
Five rural hospitals in Northern California have partnered to restore and expand access to magnetic resonance (MR) imaging through a shared mobile imaging program.
Ensuring Access to Care
Dartmouth Health
Lebanon, N.H.
The Patient Education Advisory Council at Dartmouth Health supports the creation of high-quality patient education materials.
Benefiting Communities
Onvida Health
Yuma, Ariz.
The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix and Onvida Health are partnering to establish Arizona’s first rural regional medical school branch in Yuma County.
Benefiting Communities
Morristown Medical Center
Morristown, N.J.
In late November, a man stood outside the Morristown Medical Center holding a handwritten sign that said, "Thank you all in emergency for saving my wife's life. I love you all."
Benefiting Communities
NewYork-Presbyterian
New York, N.Y.
NewYork-Presbyterian announced the launch of its Hospital-at-Home program in November, designed to provide hospital-level care to eligible patients in the comfort of their homes.
Benefiting Communities
Providence St. Patrick Hospital
Missoula, Mont.
Providence, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health systems, has partnered with Missoula’s Providence St. Patrick Hospital and the University of Montana to launch RESOLVE, a groundbreaking rural health collaborative.
Benefiting Communities
Froedtert West Bend Hospital
West Bend, Wis.
Froedtert West Bend Hospital has expanded its breast milk donation program to mothers and babies not only in the hospital but also the surrounding region.
Benefiting Communities
Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital
Pennsylvania
When Crozer Health announced its bankruptcy and impending shutdown, Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital stepped in to adopt the residency program, allowing the residents to stay together and continue serving the same communities.
Benefiting Communities
Oklahoma State University Medical Center
Tulsa, Okla.
In Tulsa, Okla., federal, state and local lawmakers, leaders, stakeholders and supporters celebrated Veterans Day with the transfer of ownership of the new James Mountain Inhofe VA Medical Center.
Benefiting Communities
Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital at St. Vincent
Indianapolis, Ind.
The WNBA’s Indiana Fever has teamed up with the Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital at Ascension St. Vincent to recognize and celebrate some of the hospital’s patients who have overcome significant medical difficulties.
Benefiting Communities
Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital
St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury is in the most rural region of an already-rural state. And just like neighbors help each other shovel driveways during Vermont’s legendary winters, NVRH looks to its community to help ensure that the people in their area have the best chance at overall health.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center
Las Vegas, Nev.
Las Vegas-based Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center recently completed Nevada’s first FDA‑approved minimally invasive repair for complex aortic aneurysms, a life-threatening condition involving the body’s main artery.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
CommonSpirit Health
Chicago, Ill.
In this conversation, Thomas McGinn, M.D., MPH, senior executive vice president and chief physician executive officer at CommonSpirit Health, shares how the organization aligns leadership, standardizes processes, and uses analytics to reduce variation and improve patient outcomes — work that made CommonSpirit Health a 2025 finalist for the AHA Quest for Quality Prize.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
JPS Health Network
Fort Worth, Texas
Is lived experience one of the most underused tools in health care today?
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix
Phoenix, Ariz.
Dr. Paul Sorajja, a nationally recognized leader in interventional cardiology at Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix, has pioneered a groundbreaking treatment for patients with severe mitral annular calcification (MAC), a condition that previously made heart valve surgery too risky.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Nemours Children’s Health
Orlando, Fla.
When a child has a medical need, they often aren’t sick enough to go into the hospital, they but still need more care than most families can offer at home. In June 2025, Nemours Children’s Health in Orlando, Fla. addressed exactly that situation with the launch of Advanced Care at Home.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Houston Methodist
Texas
Marc Boom, M.D., president and CEO of Houston Methodist and the 2026 AHA board chair, speaks with James Merlino, M.D., chief operating officer at Joint Commission, about building a culture of innovation.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Seattle, Wash.
Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle are testing a simple idea with surprisingly big potential: a special type of foam that makes gene therapy more efficient.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Ochsner Heath
Louisiana
Ochsner Health is the first health care provider in Louisiana to offer artificial intelligence (AI)-powered technology to support treatment for atrial fibrillation (AFib), a condition affecting more than 6.1 million Americans.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Larry Pierce, director of cybersecurity and information security officer for Atlantic Health, unpacks how the growth of AI is reshaping cyber risk in health care, and why physical security is now inseparable from cybersecurity for America's hospitals and health systems.
Prevention and Wellness
Mass General Brigham
Boston, Mass.
Mass General Brigham is investing $9 million through its Community Health Impact Funds to address rising food insecurity in Boston and the surrounding cities of Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop.
Prevention and Wellness
University of Tennessee Medical Center
Knoxville, Tenn.
Naming a baby is a big decision. Naming two babies takes it to another level. Naming two preemies while hundreds of miles from home is something most parents don’t even want to think about, but that’s the situation Isaac and Kaitlin Carver found themselves in when Kaitin’s water broke at 28 weeks pregnant.
Prevention and Wellness
Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital
Virginia Beach, Va.
The Unique Boutique at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital is a store with an exclusive clientele. Shoppers aren’t celebrities or fashion icons; instead, they’re patients who are experiencing medical-related hair loss.
Prevention and Wellness
Beacon Health
South Bend, Ind.
In this conversation, Beacon Health System's Kimberly Green Reeves, vice president of community impact and partnerships, and Cassy White, director of community impact, share how data, care coordination and community involvement are helping reduce infant mortality in Michigan and Indiana.
Prevention and Wellness
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, Ark.
Nurses from the Arkansas Center for Women & Infants’ Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have launched an outreach initiative to support postpartum mothers.
Prevention and Wellness
Care New England Health System
Providence, R.I.
As people age, bone mass starts to decline — for some, beginning as early as their 30s — and can be exacerbated by medical conditions, medications or lifestyle choices. Weak bones can lead to osteopenia and osteoporosis, which is called a “silent” disease because a person typically does not have symptoms and may not know they have the disease until a bone breaks.
Prevention and Wellness
Kaiser Permanente Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii
This holiday season, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii is strengthening food security across the Aloha State by supporting nonprofits that expand access to nutritious, locally grown food.
Prevention and Wellness
LCMC Health
New Orleans, La.
When Enzo woke up in the ICU at University Medical Center New Orleans, he couldn’t feel his legs. A car accident had fractured his C5 vertebra, and his dream of attending the University of Notre Dame to study mechanical engineering and music, suddenly felt out of reach.
Prevention and Wellness
Sharon Hospital
Sharon, Conn.
The Senior Behavioral Health Unit at Sharon Hospital, which serves rural northwestern Connecticut, provides short-term inpatient psychiatric care for adults age 55 or older.
Workforce
Decatur Memorial Hospital
Decatur, Ill.
Decatur Memorial Hospital (DMH) is celebrating a major milestone as its Nurse Anesthesia Program reaches 60 years of educating skilled professionals for Central Illinois and beyond.
Workforce
Loma Linda University Children’s Health
Loma Linda, Calif.,
For Heather Kono, a pediatric oncology nurse at Loma Linda University Children’s Health in California, her journey with the hospital began long before she put on scrubs.
Workforce
Unity Medical Center
Grafton, N.D.
What was once going to be empty space is now used for everything from staff meetings to community medical events, but its main purpose is serving as the Rural Medical Education Center, supporting Unity's commitment to health care education at all levels.
Workforce
UW Health
Madison, Wis.
Medical personnel from the Wisconsin Air National Guard’s 115th Fighter Wing are receiving clinical training from UW Health in Madison, Wis., giving the airmen a reliable and ongoing learning platform and ensuring their readiness to support local and global missions.
Workforce
UAMS Medical Center
Little Rock, Ark.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Nursing has earned preaccreditation to establish the state's first nurse-midwifery program, expanding maternal and reproductive health education for students.
Workforce
Essentia Health-Fargo
Fargo, N.D.
Essentia Health-Fargo recently celebrated a major milestone with the graduation of the first participant to complete its newly launched registered surgical technologist apprenticeship program.
Workforce
NYC Health + Hospitals
New York, N.Y.
In 2019, nurse turnover at NYC Health + Hospitals reached a staggering 46%.
Workforce
Dahl Memorial Healthcare Association
Ekalaka, Mont.
Dahl Memorial’s emergency department in rural Montana relies on physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners to manage critical cases. Patients requiring care beyond its capabilities are medevacked to Montana’s top hospital after stabilization efforts on-site.
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Paoli Hospital
Paoli, Pa.
In a heartwarming act of generosity, nurses at Paoli Hospital in suburban Philadelphia were stunned to learn in September that an anonymous donor had pledged $1 million to help relieve their student loan debt.