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Telling the Hospital Story: All Hospital Stories

Explore the amazing stories of hospitals going above and beyond to care for their patients and communities throughout America. Search by location using state, category, or hospital name in the interactive map below, or sort stories by category using the filter.

 

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Ensuring Access to Care

HaysMed, Gove County Medical Center, Scott County Hospital, Clara Barton Medical Center
Kansas

Seven independent rural hospitals have joined forces to launch the Kansas High Value Network, a new collaborative organization designed to expand access to care, improve clinical outcomes and reduce operating costs while preserving local governance.
Ensuring Access to Care

Jefferson Health
Philadelphia, Pa.

In this conversation, Baligh Yehia, M.D., president of Jefferson Health, shares how the organization is rethinking healthcare access through same-day cancer care, virtual primary care, home-based services, and expanded access to clinical trials.
Ensuring Access to Care

LCMC Health
New Orleans, La.

This conversation shares how integrated care models, addiction consult services and peer navigators are improving care transitions and increasing access to evidence-based treatment.
Benefiting Communities

Alaska Native Medical Center
Anchorage, Alaska

In Anchorage, hospital beds are increasingly occupied by patients who are medically ready to leave but have nowhere to go while they wait for short-term nursing and rehabilitation services. To help address this growing challenge, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is building a new skilled nursing facility on the Alaska Native Medical Center campus.
Benefiting Communities

CHI St. Alexius Health Williston
Williston, N.D.

CHI St. Alexius Health Williston has a new outpatient program to address the growing mental health needs of older adults in northwestern North Dakota.
Benefiting Communities

University of New Mexico Hospital Children’s Psychiatric Center
Albuquerque, N.M.

The University of New Mexico Hospital has completed a major expansion and modernization of its Children’s Psychiatric Center in Albuquerque.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement

Children's Hospital Colorado
Aurora, Colo.

Children’s Hospital Colorado helped the National Alliance of Sickle Cell Centers develop new national standards to improve how developmental and cognitive challenges are identified and managed in people with sickle cell disease (SCD).
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement

Children’s Mercy Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri

A 16-year-old Kansas patient is looking toward a future with fewer health limitations after receiving a heart transplant at Children’s Mercy Kansas City.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement

MUSC Health
Charleston, S.C.

In this conversation, Caroline DeLongchamps, director of the patient-and family-centered care program at MUSC Health, shares her powerful personal story and explains how patient and family-centered care can improve quality, strengthen trust, and transform how care is designed and delivered.
Prevention and Wellness

Cone Health
Greensboro, N.C.

Maternal mortality remains a critical challenge in the United States, and many pregnancy complications are linked to chronic health conditions, including cardiovascular disease.
Prevention and Wellness

University of Washington Medicine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Seattle, Wash.

The University of Washington Medicine and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Colorectal Cancer Screening Program is helping more people detect colorectal cancer early through at-home tests, clinician outreach and patient navigation support.
Prevention and Wellness

NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue
New York

In this conversation, Gabriela Jimenez Thompson, program lead of Our Story Begins at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, and Liliana Escobar, R.N., NICU head nurse at Bellevue Hospital Center, share how the Our Story Begins program uses books, reading, language and nurse education to strengthen NICU parent engagement, bonding and early childhood development.
Workforce

UAMS, Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas
Arkansas

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation has launched the Advancing Doulas and Perinatal Teams Toolkit, a new resource designed to help hospitals better integrate doulas into maternal care teams and improve outcomes for mothers and infants.
Workforce

M Health Farview
Minneapolis, Minn.

Hospitals and health systems can't meet growing patient demand without full leveraging advanced practice providers (APPs).
Workforce

University of Michigan Health-West
Michigan

At University of Michigan Health-West, a unique family story is unfolding through the work of four dedicated nurses from the Bos family.
Building Healthy Communities

St. George Regional Hospital
Utah

Visitors to Utah’s St. George Regional Hospital can now explore a new permanent artifact display on the main floor that showcases over a century of local medical history.
Building Healthy Communities

Northwell Health
New York

Northwell Health has introduced a firearm safety screening tool that was integrated into Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) system in May 2026, making it available to thousands of hospitals nationwide.
Building Healthy Communities

Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center
Boise, Idaho

Saint Alphonsus, in partnership with Canyon County Paramedics and the American Red Cross, has launched Idaho’s first ground‑based EMS whole‑blood transfusion program.
Building Healthy Communities

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, Ark.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is demonstrating the powerful impact of its Food Is Medicine program.
Building Healthy Communities

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Kaufman
Kaufman, Texas

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Kaufman is strengthening community wellness through its Healthy Education Lifestyles Program (HELP), an initiative designed to give patients both clinical support and practical health education.
Building Healthy Communities

Kaiser Permanente Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii

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

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

Huggins Hospital
Wolfeboro, N.H. 

Huggins Hospital, a small rural hospital in New Hampshire, offers a comprehensive diabetes education program, bolstered by nutrition services and designed to help individuals manage or prevent diabetes.
Building Healthy Communities

MaineHealth Franklin Hospital
Farmington, Maine

MaineHealth Community Health Farmington, which includes MaineHealth Franklin Hospital, offers health and wellness services and education focused on disease prevention to communities in rural Franklin County.
Ensuring Access to Care

HaysMed, Gove County Medical Center, Scott County Hospital, Clara Barton Medical Center
Kansas

Seven independent rural hospitals have joined forces to launch the Kansas High Value Network, a new collaborative organization designed to expand access to care, improve clinical outcomes and reduce operating costs while preserving local governance.
Ensuring Access to Care

Jefferson Health
Philadelphia, Pa.

In this conversation, Baligh Yehia, M.D., president of Jefferson Health, shares how the organization is rethinking healthcare access through same-day cancer care, virtual primary care, home-based services, and expanded access to clinical trials.
Ensuring Access to Care

LCMC Health
New Orleans, La.

This conversation shares how integrated care models, addiction consult services and peer navigators are improving care transitions and increasing access to evidence-based treatment.
Ensuring Access to Care

Providence St. Peter Hospital
Washington

In this conversation, Heidi Bray, DNP, nurse practitioner and hospitalist at Providence St. Peter Hospital, explores how hospitals can improve opioid use disorder treatment.
Ensuring Access to Care

Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
Kansas City, Kansas

Saint Luke’s is a leader in transplantation and is committed to expanding access to living kidney donation.
Ensuring Access to Care

Cottage Hospital, New Hampshire
Sharon Hospital, Connecticut

In this conversation, leaders from Cottage Hospital and Sharon Hospital (part of Northwell Health) share how specialized geriatric behavioral health programs are helping older adults receive compassionate, comprehensive mental health care close to home.
Ensuring Access to Care

Springfield Hospital
Springfield, Vt.

A new service at a critical access hospital in rural Vermont is strengthening neurological care in the community.
Ensuring Access to Care

Hackensack Meridian Health
Hackensack, N.J.

The Metropark Health & Wellness Center is the first comprehensive health and wellness facility in the nation to be located within a major transit hub, offering convenient access to care for commuters and nearby residents.
Ensuring Access to Care

Providence Alaska Medical Center, Alaska Native Medical Center
Anchorage, Alaska

Two hospitals in Anchorage, Alaska, recently received a special delivery of kindness from a local 12-year-old who gifted more than 100 Easter baskets to young patients.
Benefiting Communities

Alaska Native Medical Center
Anchorage, Alaska

In Anchorage, hospital beds are increasingly occupied by patients who are medically ready to leave but have nowhere to go while they wait for short-term nursing and rehabilitation services. To help address this growing challenge, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is building a new skilled nursing facility on the Alaska Native Medical Center campus.
Benefiting Communities

CHI St. Alexius Health Williston
Williston, N.D.

CHI St. Alexius Health Williston has a new outpatient program to address the growing mental health needs of older adults in northwestern North Dakota.
Benefiting Communities

University of New Mexico Hospital Children’s Psychiatric Center
Albuquerque, N.M.

The University of New Mexico Hospital has completed a major expansion and modernization of its Children’s Psychiatric Center in Albuquerque.
Benefiting Communities

Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center
Idaho Falls, Idaho

Born in Idaho Falls at just 22 weeks gestation and weighing only 1 pound 4 ounces, Logan Ames faced overwhelming odds as a micro-preemie. One year later, Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center celebrated his first birthday, celebrating not only Logan’s survival but also the dedication of the doctors, nurses, and family members who supported him through 163 days in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Benefiting Communities

Medical University of South Carolina 
Charleston, S.C.

In this conversation, Anne Seymour of the National Mass Violence Center, and Michael Schmidt, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and immunology at the Medical University of South Carolina, explain how crime victim compensation programs can help survivors of mass violence cover medical bills, mental healthcare, transportation and other recovery costs.
Benefiting Communities

Ascension SE Wisconsin Hospital — St. Joseph
Pennsylvania

More than two decades after its launch, Ascension Wisconsin’s Blanket of Love program continues to help families thrive by providing expectant parents with access to critical health, education and community resources.
Benefiting Communities

St. George Regional Hospital
Utah

Visitors to Utah’s St. George Regional Hospital can now explore a new permanent artifact display on the main floor that showcases over a century of local medical history.
Benefiting Communities

Northwell Health
New York

Northwell Health has introduced a firearm safety screening tool that was integrated into Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) system in May 2026, making it available to thousands of hospitals nationwide.
Benefiting Communities

Pennsylvania Hospital
Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation’s first chartered hospital, celebrated its 275th anniversary by opening the Pennsylvania Hospital Museum in May 2026.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement

Children's Hospital Colorado
Aurora, Colo.

Children’s Hospital Colorado helped the National Alliance of Sickle Cell Centers develop new national standards to improve how developmental and cognitive challenges are identified and managed in people with sickle cell disease (SCD).
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement

Children’s Mercy Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri

A 16-year-old Kansas patient is looking toward a future with fewer health limitations after receiving a heart transplant at Children’s Mercy Kansas City.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement

MUSC Health
Charleston, S.C.

In this conversation, Caroline DeLongchamps, director of the patient-and family-centered care program at MUSC Health, shares her powerful personal story and explains how patient and family-centered care can improve quality, strengthen trust, and transform how care is designed and delivered.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement

West Virginia University Health System
Morgantown, W.Va.

CD19-positive mixed phenotype acute leukemia (MPAL) is one of the rarest forms of blood cancer. It’s also one of the deadliest; the median survival rate is usually months. And there has been no FDA-approved treatment — until now.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement

Nemours Children’s Hospital Delaware
Wilmington, Del.

A gene therapy called LYFGENIA is transforming the way sickle cell disease is treated in children — but it isn’t easy to administer, and it’s not yet widely available.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement

Sanford Medical Center Bismarck
Bismarck, N.D.

Sanford Children’s Therapies is expanding its use of Dynamic Movement Intervention (DMI) in Bismarck, bringing an advanced pediatric rehabilitation approach to children with developmental and neurological challenges.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement

Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, Texas

Three young heart patients at Texas Children’s Hospital turned a difficult medical journey into an inspiring story of friendship, resilience and hope.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement

Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, Texas

Houston Methodist is transforming their inpatient care through remote monitoring technology that gives clinicians a continuous view of a patient’s condition instead of traditional vital-sign checks every four hours.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement

Nebraska Medicine - Nebraska Medical Center
Nebraska

In May, U.S. passengers from the international cruise ship where a hantavirus outbreak began were transported to Omaha, Neb., to be monitored in the National Quarantine Unit on the campus of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Prevention and Wellness

Cone Health
Greensboro, N.C.

Maternal mortality remains a critical challenge in the United States, and many pregnancy complications are linked to chronic health conditions, including cardiovascular disease.
Prevention and Wellness

University of Washington Medicine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Seattle, Wash.

The University of Washington Medicine and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Colorectal Cancer Screening Program is helping more people detect colorectal cancer early through at-home tests, clinician outreach and patient navigation support.
Prevention and Wellness

NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue
New York

In this conversation, Gabriela Jimenez Thompson, program lead of Our Story Begins at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, and Liliana Escobar, R.N., NICU head nurse at Bellevue Hospital Center, share how the Our Story Begins program uses books, reading, language and nurse education to strengthen NICU parent engagement, bonding and early childhood development.
Prevention and Wellness

Northwell Health
Lake Success, N.Y.

Building an age-friendly health system requires more than clinical excellence — it demands leadership, strategy and systemwide commitment.
Prevention and Wellness

Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center
Woodbridge, Va

Nurses are known for going above and beyond for their patients. Boryana Peeva, an ICU nurse at Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center, went 17,500 feet up for one of hers.
Prevention and Wellness

Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, Texas

In this conversation, Nancy Correa, DrPH, director of population health at Texas Children's Hospital, and Beth Van Horne, DrPH, director of research for the Division of Public Health Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, discuss the upSTART program, a comprehensive initiative that combines homegrown innovation with evidence-based care.
Prevention and Wellness

Hartford Hospital
Hartford, Conn.

For Joe Ferone, the journey from experiencing substance use disorder and homelessness to attaining recovery and stability has been long and difficult yet ultimately filled with hope.
Prevention and Wellness

Dartmouth Health Children’s
Lebanon, N.H. 

Dartmouth Health Children’s has launched a new season of its “Heads Up” mental health awareness series focused on children, titled “Heads Up: Foundations for Youth Mental Health.”
Prevention and Wellness

University of Pennsylvania Health System
Philadelphia

In this conversation, Elinore Kaufman, M.D., medical director of the Penn Trauma Violence Recovery Program, and Michele Volpe, chief operating officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, share how hospital-based violence intervention programs are helping patients heal physically, emotionally and socially after traumatic injury.
Workforce

UAMS, Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas
Arkansas

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation has launched the Advancing Doulas and Perinatal Teams Toolkit, a new resource designed to help hospitals better integrate doulas into maternal care teams and improve outcomes for mothers and infants.
Workforce

M Health Farview
Minneapolis, Minn.

Hospitals and health systems can't meet growing patient demand without full leveraging advanced practice providers (APPs).
Workforce

University of Michigan Health-West
Michigan

At University of Michigan Health-West, a unique family story is unfolding through the work of four dedicated nurses from the Bos family.
Workforce

Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns
San Diego, Calif.

At Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns in San Diego, Nick Saade, M.D., saw the patient experience from a different perspective — as a husband and expectant father.
Workforce

Gottlieb Memorial Hospital
Melrose Park, Ill.

In recognition of #HAVHope Day on June 5th, Sarah Hunter, president of Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, explores the innovative approaches her team is using to reduce workplace violence. From a simple but effective buddy system to stronger partnerships with public safety agencies and community leaders, hear real-world solutions that help healthcare workers focus on what they do best — caring for patients.
Workforce

Hartford HealthCare
Hartford, Conn.

In this Leadership Dialogue conversation, Marc Boom, M.D., president and CEO of Houston Methodist and the 2026 AHA board chair, speaks with John Santopietro, M.D., senior vice president at Hartford HealthCare and physician-in-chief of its Behavioral Health Network.
Workforce

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, Ark.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation has enrolled 25 doula trainees from 14 counties across the state in its latest class, continuing an effort to strengthen maternal health outcomes, particularly in underserved and rural communities.
Workforce

Grundy County Memorial Hospital
Grundy Center, Iowa

An Iowa hospital is being recognized for going above and beyond after staff members used an unconventional method to help a patient recover priceless family heirlooms that were accidentally thrown away.
Workforce

Ascension Elmbrook Hospital and Ascension St. Elizabeth Hospital
Wisconsin

Ascension Elmbrook Hospital and Ascension St. Elizabeth Hospital have partnered with the Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) Foundation to support the creation of HOSA - Future Health Professionals chapters at local schools, strengthening the pipeline of health care workers in Wisconsin.