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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
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.
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.
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.
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
Virginia Gay Hospital
Vinton, Iowa
In this conversation, Tina Eden, R.N., CEO of Virginia Gay Hospital, and Jacinda Bunch, Ph.D., R.N., assistant professor at the Iowa College of Nursing and senior advisor to Simulation in Motion-Iowa (SIM-IA), dive into how this mobile clinical education program (SIM-IA) is delivering high-impact simulation training directly to rural hospitals and EMS teams.
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.
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.
Benefiting Communities
Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center
Fontana, Calif.
A group of Fontana, Calif. high school seniors interested in the health care profession recently explored career paths at the Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center through Kaiser Permanente’s internship program.
Benefiting Communities
Doctors Medical Center
Modesto, Calif.
Doctors Medical Center of Modesto has given every baby born there in the month of March a book in honor of National Reading Month.
Benefiting Communities
Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children
Honolulu, Hawaii
Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children knows that play is an important part of the healing process and hosts an annual Santa’s Workshop toy drive so that every hospitalized child receives a gift during the holidays.
Benefiting Communities
UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital
Denver, Colo.
A unique intervention and mentoring program at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital uses a public health approach to provide equitable, trauma-informed care to patients and families impacted by violence.
Benefiting Communities
Wellstar Kennestone Hospital
Marietta, Ga.
Wellstar Kennestone Hospital is committed to building strong scholars before the school years begin through the Talk With My Baby program. Learn more about this initiative here.
Benefiting Communities
AtlantiCare
Egg Harbor Township, N.J.
AtlantiCare hosts a High School Hiring Blitz and offers jobs to more than 30 high school seniors. It’s a new approach to fill the talent gap in health care by creating programs that build a long-term pipeline of prospective employees.
Benefiting Communities
Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center
Bangor, Maine
In June 2022, Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center partnered with Mothers’ Milk Bank Northeast to open a donor milk depot in Bangor, Maine, bringing the number of milk banks in the state to seven. These milk banks rely on donated breast milk, which is tested, pasteurized and then given to infants in need of a nutritional boost.
Benefiting Communities
NorthShore University Health System
Evanston, Ill.
NorthShore University Health System is making its most significant investment in health equity yet. The health system is taking action to address health disparities across the communities it serves by enlisting and mobilizing capable leaders, a diversified workforce and the right community partners.
Benefiting Communities
UK HealthCare
Lexington, Ky.
UK HealthCare has created a unique partnership with Bluegrass Community & Technical College (BCTC) and school districts in the state to support students interested in a health care career and increase interest in the health care field.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
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.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Petersburg Medical Center
Petersburg, Ala.
Petersburg Medical Center in Petersburg, Alaska, has ushered in a new era of breast cancer detection with the arrival of its advanced 3D mammography machine.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Carilion Clinic
Roanoke, Va.
In this conversation, leaders from the 2024 Quest for Quality winner, WellSpan Health, and finalists Carilion Clinic, Jefferson Health and MUSC Health, discuss their organizations' work in providing safe, patient- and family-centered care.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
UC Davis Health
Sacramento, Calif.
New research out of UC Davis Health in Sacramento, Calif., has the potential to reshape life for people who have lost the ability to speak.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
UC Davis Health
Sacramento, Calif.
UC Davis Health in Sacramento, Calif. performed a rare procedure that involved using a child's collarbone to create a new upper arm.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
How much of a difference can seven minutes really make? Overlake Medical Center and Clinics in Bellevue, Wash., has found out that those little increments really add up.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Kaiser Permanente Northern California has opened a new high-tech laboratory in San Jose to conduct common genetic testing and increase access to personalized “precision” treatment based on genome testing.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Norton Children's Hospital
Louisville, Ky.
When identical twins Tate and Tripp Myers were born, they weighed a little under four pounds … put together. After Tate and Tripp arrived 26 weeks and six days, their first home was in the new Tiny Baby Unit (TBU) at Norton Children's Hospital in Louisville, Ky.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Xaia is an app developed over years of research by Cedars-Sinai that leverages the Apple Vision Pro platform to expand access to mental health.
Prevention and Wellness
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital
Brattleboro, Vt.
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital in Vermont is offering a new, free Wellness PLUS Program for people at risk for heart and lung disease due to diabetes, high blood pressure, tobacco use, obesity and sedentary lifestyle.
Prevention and Wellness
FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital
Pinehurst, N.C.
As part of NICU Awareness Month and National Literacy Month, each baby’s family in the FirstHealth NICU was gifted a book and information on the importance of reading.
Prevention and Wellness
Tripler Army Medical Center
Honolulu, Hawaii
When pediatric patients at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, are feeling distressed, they can find comfort in Nalu, a two-year-old Labrador retriever and the cuddliest member of the TAMC team.
Prevention and Wellness
UCLA Medical Center Santa Monica
Santa Monica, Calif.
On Aug. 8, UCLA Santa Monica hosted a lunchtime “fashion show” starring therapy animals, dressed in Taylor Swift-inspired outfits that reflected different periods of Swift’s music.
Prevention and Wellness
Sutter Health
Sacramento, Calif.
Sutter Health, based out of Sacramento, Calif., is partnering with Twin Rivers Unified School District, the Neighborhood Wellness Foundation, and the Sacramento Native American Health Center to make mental and physical health resources more accessible for local teens.
Prevention and Wellness
Who helps the helpers? At Wake Forest University School of Medicine, special training gave health care workers guidance on how to care for one another.
Prevention and Wellness
Atlanticare
Atlantic City, N.J.
“I feel like I’ve had a village caring for my baby, my family and me,” says schoolteacher Teela Grayson, of the care AtlantiCare has provided her before, during and after the birth of her third child last August.
Prevention and Wellness
Children’s Hospital of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Hershey Medical Center and Children’s Hospital, Hershey, Pa.; University of Maryland Medical System, Baltimore, Md.; HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital, Sarasota, Fla.
What’s better when you’re feeling scared than a visit from a canine friend? Many hospitals and health systems are embracing trained emotional support dogs to support staff, patients and their families during difficult times.
Prevention and Wellness
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals
Oakland, Calif.
UCSF patients will have a full prom experience, from dressing up to hitting the dance floor, even as they recover from serious health problems.