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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.
All Stories
Building Healthy Communities
Advocate Condell Medical Center
Libertyville, Ill.
In Libertyville, Illinois, Advocate Condell Medical Center is tackling food insecurity through their innovative Rx Mobile Food Pantry Program, delivering fresh, nutritious food directly to neighborhoods in need.
Building Healthy Communities
St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center
Lewiston, Maine
St. Mary’s Health System has expanded its behavioral and mental health services to help close gaps and ensure a continuum of care services in the community.
Building Healthy Communities
Cedars-Sinai Health System
Los Angeles, Calif.
Like many health systems, Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles found itself facing access and administrative challenges — long wait times for patients, time-consuming paperwork for doctors. To address these concerns, they launched an artificial intelligence-powered virtual platform called Cedars-Sinai Connect which, according to a recent study, showed positive results when compared to traditional physician recommendations.
Ensuring Access to Care
Landmark Medical Center
Woonsocket, R.I.
Many hospitals and health systems are rethinking triage processes and using new technology tools to ensure access, shorten patients’ length of stay in the ED, and improve care quality and efficiency.
Ensuring Access to Care
El Camino Health
Mountain View, Calif.
Carolyn Bogard, DNP, R.N., director of care coordination and palliative care at El Camino Health, talks about her system’s use of data to harness the passion care-providers feel for improving outcomes and streamlining care delivery for older adults.
Ensuring Access to Care
UConn Health
Farmington, Conn.
Saving lives is the impetus behind a community outreach and engagement breast cancer screening program led by UConn Health, based in Farmington, Conn.
Benefiting Communities
Oklahoma Hospital Association
Oklahoma
Since 2020, the Oklahoma Hospital Association has worked with health care systems across the state in partnership with the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma to provide patients and families with fresh produce, pantry staples and ready-to-eat meals.
Benefiting Communities
University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital
Iowa City, Iowa
At University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital, 5-year-old James Hall is being treated for Langerhans cell histiocytosis, a rare cancer-like disorder that affects only one to two newborns out of every million.
Benefiting Communities
Ascension St. John Medical Center
Tulsa, Okla.
Ascension St. John Medical Center in Tulsa, Okla., has been verified as a Level I Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons (ACS).
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
UMass Memorial Medical Center – Children’s Medical Center
Worcester, Mass.
Robin — an interactive, human-assisted robot — is an innovative tool that’s helping make hospital visits less stressful for pediatric patients at the UMass Memorial Medical Center – Children’s Medical Center.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, part of Yale New Haven Health
New London, Conn.
An expectant mother needing spinal surgery was treated successfully thanks to skillful surgeons and outstanding coordination among clinical teams at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London, Conn.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
Renown Health
Reno, Nev.
Renown Health in Reno, Nev., one of only 250 transplant centers nationwide, recently reached a historic milestone by successfully performing its first living donor kidney transplant.
Prevention and Wellness
Tampa General Hospital
Tampa, Fla.
Tampa General Hospital is embracing the importance of food by partnering with celebrity chef Geoffrey Zakarian, who has developed seasonal menus featuring local produce whenever possible.
Prevention and Wellness
Advocate Condell Medical Center
Libertyville, Ill.
In Libertyville, Illinois, Advocate Condell Medical Center is tackling food insecurity through their innovative Rx Mobile Food Pantry Program, delivering fresh, nutritious food directly to neighborhoods in need.
Prevention and Wellness
Bethany Children's Health Center
Bethany, Okla.
In Bethany, Okla., a new initiative is reshaping the future for disabled youth transitioning into adulthood.
Workforce
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.
Workforce
NYC Health + Hospitals
New York, N.Y.
NYC Health + Hospitals has achieved a dramatic improvement in nurse retention, reducing its staff nurse turnover rate from 46% in 2019 to just 7.3% in 2025 — less than half the national average of 16.4%.
Workforce
Centra Health
Lynchburg, Va.
In this conversation, Corey Feist, CEO and co-founder of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation, and Tiffany Lyttle, R.N., director of cultural integration at Centra Health, explore how hospitals, health systems and states are expanding employee access to mental health care.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
At Landmark Medical Center, based in Woonsocket, R.I., new moms and their babies receive care in a comfortable setting designed to feel like home. Landmark’s Maternity Care and Newburn Nursery Precious Beginnings specializes in offering a single room maternity experience, where all aspects of the birth process occur in one room with a consistent team of care providers.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
The Critical Care and Trauma Simulation Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center is one of the most technologically advanced training centers in the region. There, doctors, nurses and other medical professionals train on mannequins that breathe, whose eyes respond to light, and who even bleed when an IV is placed.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
For some kids, few things are as nerve-racking as an upcoming hospital visit. The blank white walls, labyrinthian hallways and conversations with unfamiliar grownups can feel intimidating and uncomfortable. But Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital in Loma Linda, Calif., soothes these young patients with a little bit of imagination known as Loma Land.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is the first in the state to participate in a trial using a new sensor that can help patients monitor their fluid levels. The sensor is implanted during a minimally invasive procedure, and patients can be discharged the same day.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Esther Whitley had been feeling tired and out of breath for months before she visited her doctor. The cause was a mitral valve leak, meaning blood was flowing in the wrong direction. There was also another, more serious complication: A tumor was present on her heart, which would usually require open-heart surgery to remove. That procedure would carry risk for any patient, but at age 86, it was an impossibility for Whitley. There simply wasn’t a way to treat her safely – until there was.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
TeamBirth at Providence St. Peter in Olympia and Providence Centralia in Centralia is an industry-standard birthing-communication process.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
St. John’s Hospital Camarillo of Camarillo, Calif. recently became the first hospital in southern California and the second in the state to use a groundbreaking treatment for AFib. Medical staff from St. John’s and the affiliated St. John’s Regional Medical Center used the POLARx cryoablation system, which restores normal heart rhythm by disabling heart cells that create an irregular heartbeat.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
A terrific new care site option is now available for Phoenix-area babies born with nearly any kind of medical condition.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Michigan Medicine and Henry Ford Health are partnering to launch the largest-ever clinical trial to determine if administering the marijuana-derived compound known as cannabidiol (CBD) before and after surgery may reduce the need for opioids following a total knee arthroplasty.