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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
Intermountain Health St. James Hospital
Montana
Frankee Angel, a lifelong performer, found her world upended when she suffered a sudden medical emergency just before playing piano at St. Patrick’s Church.
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.
Ensuring Access to Care
Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Little Rock, Ark.
Arkansas Children’s Hospital is utilizing telemedicine to expand access to care and support rural hospitals that lack pediatric cardiac MRI and CT expertise.
Ensuring Access to Care
Northern Cochise Community Hospital
Cochise County, Ariz.
In rural Cochise County, Ariz., many older adults struggle with limited incomes, chronic health conditions, and scarce access to essential resources. Geographic isolation and high poverty rates among seniors make basic needs — such as adult incontinence supplies — difficult to afford.
Ensuring Access to Care
Clifton-Fine Hospital
St. Lawrence County, N.Y.
Clifton-Fine Hospital in St. Lawrence County, N.Y., adjacent to the Canadian border, was long challenged by low patient numbers and an outdated, cramped emergency room so small and crowded that staff struggled to treat multiple patients with space or privacy.
Benefiting Communities
MultiCare Valley Hospital
Spokane, Wash.
Every December, health care workers at MultiCare Valley Hospital, based in Spokane, Wash., take on extra seasonal roles: holiday “elves." For nine years, the staff has organized a gift drive to support local children, donating presents and essential items to families who need them most.
Benefiting Communities
Manning Family Children’s Hospital
New Orleans, La.
Manning Family Children’s Hospital has become the first facility in Louisiana and the broader Gulf South region to earn verification as a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center.
Benefiting 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.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
Lake Charles Memorial Health System
Lake Charles, La.
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital has launched Mission Move Well, a systemwide initiative built on the Arjo MOVE framework to support patient mobility, strengthen staff response and improve patient safety.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Mass.
Kieran, a 57-year-old father of three, joined the American Heart Association’s 2024 Boston Heart Walk just over a year after receiving a heart transplant. His participation in the one-mile walk reflected his progress toward recovery and his desire to support heart disease advocacy and research.
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.
Prevention and Wellness
HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital
Port St. Lucie, Fla.
It was Angela and Christopher’s wedding anniversary, but it looked like they wouldn’t be able to celebrate it. Angela, a nurse at HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital, wasn’t working — instead, she was a patient recovering from surgery to address severe abdominal pain. But her co-workers and friends weren’t going to let the day pass by.
Prevention and Wellness
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.
Prevention and Wellness
Cottage Hospital
Woodsville, N.H.
Designed as a “caring and sensitive environment,” the Ray of Hope unit at Cottage Hospital addresses behavioral health needs associated with aging.
Workforce
East Alabama Health
Opelika, Ala.
Maintaining a trained workforce is one of the greatest challenges facing rural hospitals today. In Alabama, the shortage is particularly and increasingly severe, especially when it comes to nurses. East Alabama Health is addressing the problem in multiple ways.
Workforce
In this conversation, Thomas Ahr, senior vice president and chief human resources officer at Hospital Sisters Health System, details how the health system is prioritizing prevention, supporting staff after incidents, and turning safety into a leadership responsibility.
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.
Benefiting Communities
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
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
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
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
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.
Benefiting Communities
M Health Fairview Lakes Medical Center
Wyoming, Minn.
Caitlin Ingebritson is one of many who have had a glowing experience as an intern with M Health Fairview. Project SEARCH interns complete three 10-week rotations in various departments at the hospital, including security, environmental services, nutrition services, supply chain, facilities and clerical.
Benefiting Communities
In early 2025, the last county in Wyoming without a hospital will lose that unwanted status when a new $73.8 million critical access hospital in Pinedale, dubbed Sublette County Health, is scheduled for completion in March.
Benefiting Communities
Mark Twain Medical Center — a rural hospital based in San Andreas, Calif. — provided more than $4.9 million in direct community benefit to patients during its most recent fiscal year, according to recently released numbers.
Benefiting Communities
NYC Health + Hospitals
New York, N.Y.
In this conversation, Deborah Brown, senior vice president of external and regulatory affairs at NYC Health + Hospitals, discusses innovative solutions to common Metropolitan Anchor Hospitals challenges.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Congenital heart disease is the most common type of birth defect, affecting nearly one in 100 births each year. Thanks to medical and surgical advances in recent years, more people born with heart defects are living longer, healthier lives.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Temple University Hospital
Philadelphia, Pa.
A complicated, rare and difficult-to-perform heart surgery first pioneered more than 50 years ago is making a comeback, due to improved techniques that yield better results.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Monadnock Community Hospital’s Mobile Integrated Healthcare (MIH) program is closing care gaps in the rural community of Peterborough, N.H., and the eastern Monadnock region.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center
Cheyenne, Wyo.
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center (CRMC) has launched an innovative emergency department blood kiosk, significantly enhancing patient care by providing immediate access to life-saving blood transfusions.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Butler Hospital
Providence, R.I.
Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I., is leading research studies on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia through its multifaceted Memory and Aging Program (MAP)
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
In late 2024, Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford, Conn., treated its first patient with pulsed-field ablation (PFA), a new technology that delivers pulsed electric fields to tissue to manage AFib.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Seattle, Wa.
At Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, scientists contributed to research that showed how a better understanding of the subtleties of antibody-target interactions can inform vaccine design and therapeutic strategies.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham, Wash., is aiming to catch cancer earlier through their use of Intuitive Ion™ Robotic Bronchoscopy technology.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Scripps Health
San Diego, Calif.
In the last of this four-part conversation, four leaders from Scripps Health — Chris Van Gorder, president and CEO, Todd Walbridge, senior director of corporate and system safety and security, Shane Thielman, corporate senior vice president and chief information officer, and Gerry Soderstrom, corporate senior vice president and chief audit, compliance and risk officer — discuss the future of cyberattacks on America's health care, the real-time threat to patients, and recovery efforts once an attack is over.
Prevention and Wellness
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle offers more than just high-quality care to their cancer patients. The hospital also provides access to Cook For Your Life, a web-based nutrition and recipe resource dedicated to advancing research on diet, cancer prevention and survivorship.
Prevention and Wellness
MaineHealth
Portland, Maine
Launched nearly 20 years ago by MaineHealth and several community partners, Let’s Go! is a community engagement initiative designed to increase healthy eating and active living and decrease obesity.
Prevention and Wellness
Northern Light Acadia Hospital
Bangor, Maine
Northern Light Acadia Hospital in Bangor, Maine, is addressing children’s mental health needs by providing psychological first aid training (PFA) to community partners including local school employees, camp counselors and hospital teams.
Prevention and Wellness
Dartmouth Health
Lebanon, N.H.
In this conversation, Joanne M. Conroy, M.D., CEO & president of Dartmouth Health and 2024 AHA board chair, speaks with her colleague Robert E. Brady, Ph.D., director of Anxiety Disorders Service at Dartmouth Health, about different types of anxieties and their prevalence in today’s culture.
Prevention and Wellness
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, N.Y.
In this new "Safety Speaks" conversation, Michael Privitera, M.D., professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center, discusses ways to ease the cognitive load that many physicians and caregivers face, and how simple steps can be implemented to make it easier to focus on what's most important.
Prevention and Wellness
Atlantic Health System
Morristown, N.J.
Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health System will soon deploy an AI-based technology that flags polypharmacy issues.
Prevention and Wellness
Kittitas Valley Healthcare
Ellensburg, Wash.
In this conversation, Julie Petersen, CEO of Kittitas Valley Healthcare, discusses how her organization kept its promise to preserve essential obstetric services for women of all ages.
Prevention and Wellness
Henry Ford Health
Detroit, Michigan
In this conversation, Cathrine Frank, M.D., chair of psychiatry and behavioral health services at Henry Ford Health, shares how they utilize a virtual team approach to provide reachable care.
Prevention and Wellness
Rochester Regional Health recognizes that women thrive when their care environment is welcoming, uplifting, and supportive of the whole person.