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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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Building Healthy Communities
Billboard advertising the NFL draft in Pittsburgh

Allegheny Health Network and UPMC
Pittsburgh, Pa.

Pittsburgh’s hospital systems ‘prepare for the unexpected’ as the NFL Draft approaches
Pittsburgh officials expect up to 500,000 visitors to flood the city for the 2026 NFL Draft April 23-25, bringing routine medical needs as well as risks tied to large crowds, alcohol use and possible emergencies.
Building Healthy Communities
A woman and girl at home speak with a physician via tablet computer

Intermountain Health
Utah and Idaho

Intermountain Children’s Health Launches the Nation’s Largest Pediatric Telestroke Network
Intermountain Children’s Health has launched the nation’s largest pediatric Telestroke network, giving children in Utah and southern Idaho rapid access to stroke experts through virtual consultations.
Building Healthy Communities
A female physician touches a pregnant woman's abdomen

Lake Charles Memorial Hospital for Women, Lakeview Hospital, Lane Regional Medical Center, Ochsner American Legion Hospital, Ochsner Lafayette Medical Center, Ochsner St. Anne Hospital, Opelousas General Hospital System, Our Lady of the Angels Hospital, Rapides Regional Medical Center, Touro Hospital, Woman’s Hospital 
Louisiana

Louisiana hospitals launch program to support pregnant and postpartum women with substance use disorders
The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) has launched its inaugural group of 11 Project M.O.M. catalyst site hospitals, marking a major step forward in addressing maternal overdose mortality across the state.
Ensuring Access to Care
Health worker in virtual consult with four other providers on a screen

University of Utah Health 
Utah

University of Utah Health expands TeleNICU services
University of Utah Health is expanding its TeleNICU program to improve access to specialty newborn care in rural communities across the Mountain West.
Ensuring Access to Care
advancing-health-podcast
Youth Mental Health Can’t Wait
In this conversation, David Stark, chief of government and external affairs and philanthropy officer at UnityPoint Health, shares how a major philanthropic investment is helping expand mental health services for children and adolescents.
Ensuring Access to Care
McKinney Hospital rendering

Texas Health Resources
McKinney, Texas

Texas Health plans new hospital to reach growing North Texas community
Texas Health Resources has announced plans for a new hospital and medical campus in north McKinney, marking a major investment in one of North Texas’s fastest‑growing regions.
Benefiting Communities
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A Child's Health Starts in Communities
In this conversation, Mary Kate Daly, senior vice president and chief of community health of the Patrick M. Magoon Institute for Healthy Communities at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, explains how long-term investments, powerful community partnerships, and a first-of-its-kind community health hub are leading to better outcomes for kids in Chicago and beyond.
Benefiting Communities
Blood transfusion bags

AtlantiCare
Egg Harbor Township, N.J.

AtlantiCare EMS Expands Whole Blood Treatment on Mobile Intensive Care Units Across Southeastern New Jersey
AtlantiCare EMS has expanded its trauma care capabilities by launching a Ground Whole Blood Program, allowing paramedics to administer whole blood transfusions directly at emergency scenes.
Benefiting Communities
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Baylor Scott & White Health
Texas

A New Prescription for Community Health
Improving community health requires more than clinical care alone.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
UVMC patient Kian sits in a doctor's office exam room

University of Vermont Medical Center
Burlington, Vt.

Expert pediatric neurosurgical care helps teenager return to ice hockey, normal life
When 14-year-old Vermont student-athlete Kian started developing migraines so severe that it was difficult to stand upright, an MRI revealed a serious diagnosis: He had an arteriovenous malformation (AVM), a rare and dangerous tangle of blood vessels in the brain that can bleed and cause seizures or stroke-like symptoms.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
A baby stares at a pen held in front of her by a female physician

Oklahoma Children’s Hospital at OU Health
Oklahoma City

Oklahoma Children’s Hospital performs first chemotherapy for pediatric eye cancer
Oklahoma Children’s Hospital at OU Health has performed the state’s first targeted chemotherapy for a rare pediatric eye cancer, marking an advancement in care for children diagnosed with retinoblastoma.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
UK Health System patient John Corbin receiving theranostics to treat prostate cancer

University of Kansas Health System
Kansas City, Kan.

Kansas City health leaders announce new integrated theranostics research and treatment center
The University of Kansas Health System, the University of Kansas Medical Center, Children’s Mercy and BAMF Health announced in February 2026 their collaboration on a new fully integrated theranostics research and treatment center — one of the first of its kind in the nation.
Prevention and Wellness
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When Birth Isn’t Joyful: Supporting Postpartum Trauma
In this conversation, Katie Au, M.D. and Katherine Jorda, M.D., directors of the Perinatal Trauma Clinic at Oregon Health & Science University, explore how trauma can emerge during pregnancy, labor or postpartum.
Prevention and Wellness
Son Saaith Lara (L) and father Alonso Lara (R)

Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth
Fort Worth, Texas

All in the family: Texas hospital sets new kidney transplant record with a personal highlight
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth reached a milestone in 2025, setting new records for both living kidney donations and total kidney transplants.
Prevention and Wellness
Packaged food on shelves

Providence VA Medical Center
Providence, R.I.

Nourish & Flourish pantry offers nutritious food to Rhode Island veterans
Nearly 40% of Rhode Island households are food insecure, according to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank and other sources. Providence VA Medical Center is working to meet the needs of veterans who are food insecure, including homeless veterans.
Workforce
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Fixing the Nursing Shortage with Local Talent Pipelines
In this conversation, Denzil Ross, president of Indiana University Health South Region, and Erik Coyne, chancellor of Ivy Tech Community College–Bloomington, discuss how the organizations' partnership is using philanthropic investment to broaden nursing education for aspiring nurses.
Workforce
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals emergency department entrance with EMTs bringing a patient in from an ambulance.

Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
California

Call me, maybe: New campaign helps Californians understand when to use 911
Contra Costa County leaders partnered with Kaiser Permanente and Contra Costa Heath to launch the “Right Care, Right Way” pilot campaign.
Workforce
Physicians discuss ideas in the innovation space

MaineHealth Pen Bay Hospital
Rockport, Maine

Innovation Space sparks ideas, creative solutions from front-line care teams
Front-line team members are turning practical ideas into meaningful improvements for patient care and daily operations, thanks in part to the Innovation Space opened in 2024 at MaineHealth Pen Bay Hospital.
Benefiting Communities
Advancing Health Podcast
Helping Boards Help Rural Hospitals

The constant strain of workforce and financial issues are proving difficult to solve for rural health care providers. In this conversation, Barbara Sowada, president of the Board of Trustees at Memorial Hospital, discusses the role board members can play in helping their hospitals and health systems navigate today’s pressing problems, and how the AHA’s resources and educational materials can provide valuable assistance.

Benefiting Communities
Sign indicates it's the future site of the ChristianaCare West Grove Campus

ChristianaCare
Wilmington, Del.

Lehigh Valley Health Network
Allentown, Pa.

Micro-Hospitals: Transforming Healthcare in Southeastern Pennsylvania
Two Southeastern Pennsylvania health systems, ChristianaCare and Lehigh Valley Health Network, are launching a new era of health care with their opening of “micro-hospitals” that provide 24/7 emergency care with limited inpatient beds.
Benefiting Communities
Man and woman stand in store aisle flanked by balloons
On-campus high school grocery store offers more than free food
O.D. Wyatt High School in Fort Worth, Texas, in January 2024 opened an on-campus grocery store, housed in a portable building and brimming with fresh produce, meat and nonperishable items for students and their families.
Benefiting Communities
Children's Wisconsin pediatric mental health clinic exterior at dusk
Kohl’s cash translates to new pediatric mental health option in Wisconsin
Wisconsin children and families in need of immediate mental health care can now walk in to a brand-new clinic in Kenosha, thanks to a $3 million donation from the charitable wing of the department store retail chain Kohl’s.
Benefiting Communities
Penn State Health. Donate Life flag is unfurled at the flag raising ceremony.
This Pennsylvania Health System Goes Blue and Green Each April. Here’s Why.
Penn State Health employees, College of Medicine faculty, staff and students show their support for organ donation on National Donate Life Blue & Green Day Friday by wearing blue and green.
Benefiting Communities
a young man sits in front of a gaming PC wearing a headset and holding a game controler
1UP! Injured gamers can now get extra lives from the Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic’s Gaming and Esports Medicine Clinic focuses on medical issues that impact professional and hobbyist video gamers, which largely come from repetition and overuse.
Benefiting Communities
Aerial rendering of the Good Samaritan Sioux Falls senior living complex
A senior health oasis springs up in Sioux Falls
Seniors living in the Sioux Falls, S.D., area will soon have access to a first-of-its-kind community for older adults, following a significant investment by Sanford Health.
Benefiting Communities
candles lit in memory of lost children bear names tied on with purple ribbon
Penn Medicine Provides Parents Tools to Grieve and Heal After Loss
The loss of a baby during pregnancy or delivery or within the first months after birth is its own kind of grief. Through its Community Wellness Program, Penn Medicine Princeton Health offers a space and opportunity for families to come together in a moving and dignified ceremony to share their sorrow.
Benefiting Communities
Trauma Room at Banner North Colorado Medical Center Sees $1 Million Remodel
Patients over a vast swatch of western states who need level II trauma center services have a great new option that will significantly reduce the need to transfer to another facility.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
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St. David’s Medical Center first to offer new liver cancer treatment in Central Texas
St. David's Medical Center in Austin has become the first hospital in Central Texas to offer histotripsy, a new noninvasive treatment for liver cancer.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Four surgeons operate on a patient in surgery
A new era in heart valve replacement at a California children’s hospital
Loma Linda University Children's Hospital recently made history performing the first pediatric partial heart transplant in Southern California.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Stock image shows a surgeon in scrubs holding a toy heart aloft, masking face

Tufts Medical Center
Boston, Mass.

Tufts Medical Center reaches heart transplant milestone
Tufts Medical Center’s Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant team performed the hospital’s 800th heart transplant in October 2024, a year before the transplant program marked its 40th anniversary.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
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University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, N.Y.

Researchers uncover possible new biomarker for psychosis diagnosis
Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester in New York are investigating a potential biomarker in the brain that could diagnose psychosis before symptoms appear.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
An infant rests on an exam table while a hand places a stethoscope against the infants chest.
Tiny heart, big breakthrough: Norton Children's Hospital saves infant with rare surgery
Hearts have a special meaning for Heavenleigh Weilage. For one thing, she was born on Valentine’s Day 2022. For another, she was the first child in the country to receive a pacemaker so small it’s the size of a large pill.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
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Sanford Health
Sioux Falls, S.D.

Bridging Distances with AI and Telemedicine

Sanford Health, America’s largest rural health system, is revolutionizing care delivery with telemedicine and AI. In this conversation, Dave Newman, M.D., vice president and chief medical officer for virtual care at Sanford Health, discusses how innovative virtual care models and AI-powered solutions are breaking down barriers, improving patient outcomes and enhancing provider efficiency.

Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
A male physician in scrubs smiles at a frail boy sitting up in a hospital bed

UC Davis Medical Center 
Sacramento, Calif.

UC Davis Health’s pioneering program to enhance care for neurodivergent kids
University of California Davis Health has launched a first-in-the-nation program called PATH (Promoting Accessibility To Healthcare) to improve the health care experience for children who have autism and other neurodevelopmental disabilities.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Stock image of a young curly-haired mother holding an infant against her shoulder

Loma Linda University Medical Center-Murrieta
Murrieta, Calif.

A California hospital's simple, secret weapon for treating postpartum patients
Modern medical technology has led to remarkable advancements, but staff at Loma Linda University Medical Center-Murrieta know that something as basic as a strategically labeled bracelet can help save a life.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
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Luminis Health
Annapolis, Md.

Data and Curiosity: Strategies to Strengthen Patient Safety
In this conversation, Mindy Estes, M.D., former CEO of Saint Luke's Health System and former AHA board chair, and Tori Bayless, CEO of Luminis Health and AHA board member, discuss how hospital leaders and boards can drive meaningful change, the impact of data-driven decision making, and the importance of mentoring future health care leaders.
Prevention and Wellness
A pregnant woman sits on a sofa talking with a female clinician

Woman’s Hospital
Baton Rouge, La.

Through GRACE, Baton Rouge’s Woman’s Hospital Delivers Second Chances for Pregnant Patients Battling Addictions
The Guiding Recovery and Creating Empowerment (GRACE) program at Woman’s Hospital in Baton Rouge, La., provides nonjudgmental support and resources to women who need help with substance misuse during pregnancy.
Prevention and Wellness
A male clinician sits bedside, talking to a male patient in hospital bed

Saline Memorial Hospital
Benton, Ark.

Saline Health introduces “StepOne” to battling addiction
Benton, Ark.-based Saline Memorial Hospital, in collaboration with Evergreen Healthcare Partners, introduced the StepOne Service, a program designed to support individuals struggling with addiction.
Prevention and Wellness
Staff at University of Kentucky’s Albert B. Chandler Hospital stand around the Joy Cart

University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital
Lexington, Ky.

For 25 years, Jarrett’s Joy Cart carries a legacy of love
At University of Kentucky’s Albert B. Chandler Hospital, pediatric patients receive a little extra boost, thanks to the legacy of a boy who knew what it was like to spend long days there.
Prevention and Wellness
stock. closeup of a clinician's hands pointing out parts of an anatomically correct heart model
Garden State hospitals are doing something right when it comes to matters of the heart
In general, Garden State hospitals are doing something right when it comes to matters of the heart. The risk-adjusted bypass mortality rate in New Jersey declined 43.3% between 1994 and 2020, according to the most recent data available from the state Department of Health.
Prevention and Wellness
UVA executives and clinicians cut ribbon on new clinic

UVA Health
Charlottesville, Va.

At UVA Health, a Comprehensive Approach to Parkinson’s Disease
A new University of Virginia Health System clinic for Parkinson's disease not only offers patients one place where care is coordinated between everyone from neurosurgeons to social workers, but a groundbreaking treatment pioneered at UVA, focused ultrasound, which treats the shaking and rigidity caused by Parkinson’s.
Prevention and Wellness
Eat a healthy diet but don’t give up chocolate: oncologists share well-being tips. University of Vermont Health Network, Burlington, Vermont.

The University of Vermont Health Network
Burlington, Vt.

Eat a Healthy Diet But Don’t Give Up Chocolate: Oncologists Share Well-being Tips
Fourteen oncology providers from the University of Vermont Cancer Center and the Fitzpatrick Cancer Center at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital share how they support their own health and well-being, in a recent blog published on the UVM Health Network website.
Prevention and Wellness
advancing-health-podcast

Sheppard Pratt
Baltimore, Md.

Mobile Crisis Centers: A Solution for Behavioral Health Access
In this conversation, Jason Melegari, R.N., director of clinical services at Sheppard Pratt, discusses how the organization's mobile behavioral health initiative was road tested, and the positive difference it is making for accessibility.
Prevention and Wellness
Opening a World of Possibilities for Those on the Autism Spectrum

Children’s Specialized Hospital
New Brunswick, N.J.

Opening a World of Possibilities for Those on the Autism Spectrum
Children’s Specialized Hospital, a RWJBarnabas health facility with locations in New Jersey, has opened a new Autism Center of Excellence to help patients and their families navigate the treatment process.
Prevention and Wellness
A woman sits at a kitchen table using a home bp monitor

Rutland Regional Medical Center
Rutland, Vt.

Vermont hospital leads workshops with practical skills for managing chronic conditions
Rutland (Vt.) Regional Medical Center, in partnership with My Healthy Vermont, offers self-management programs that provide participants with the skills and tools needed to effectively manage their medical condition.