Telling the Hospital Story 2026 Flip Book

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New Resources: Building and Maintaining Public Trust and Confidence

Member Resource: Building and Maintaining Public Trust and Confidence

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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.

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.

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

AdventHealth
Altamonte, Fla.

How AdventHealth Is Simplifying Access to Care

In this conversation, Brent Davis, CEO of the primary health division at AdventHealth, shares how improved patient access, coordinated care teams, virtual care, and proactive follow-up are building a more efficient, consumer-focused healthcare system.

Ensuring Access to Care

Street Dreams Corvette Club members at a prostate cancer screening event held in the Sentara Princess Anne Hospital's parking lot. Photo courtesy of Sentara Princess Anne Hospital

Sentara Princess Anne Hospital
Virginia Beach, Va.

Virginia hospital teams up with Corvette club to drive home importance of prostate cancer screenings

Just as regular maintenance keeps a car running smoothly, routine health screenings can help detect problems before they become serious.

Ensuring Access to Care

Nantucket Cottage Hospital
Nantucket, Mass.

Miles From Specialty Care, This Island Hospital Has a Plan

In this conversation, Amy Lee, president and chief operating officer at Nantucket Cottage Hospital, shares how telehealth is transforming patient care on the island,

Benefiting Communities

Presbyterian Healthcare Services
New Mexico

New Mexico health system offers prescriptions for healthy food

In New Mexico, Presbyterian Healthcare Services’ "Food as Medicine" approach closely aligns with the goals of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement.

Benefiting Communities

Kula Hospital
Hawaii

Hawaii hospital set for comeback after storm damage closure

Hawaii state leaders, Maui Health and Kaiser Permanente announced plans to restore and reopen Kula Hospital after the March 2026 Kona Low storms caused significant damage and forced the temporary closure of the hospital, including its emergency department and the Hale Makamae care facility. Kula Hospital restoration moves forward with state and Kaiser Permanente funding, bringing resilient emergency, inpatient and long-term care back to Upcountry Maui.

Benefiting Communities

Erie County Medical Center
New York

Local Hospitals Benefit from Innovative Medical-Legal Partnership

The palliative care department at Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) was the first in Western New York to offer patients a new component of their overall care: help with legal issues from the MedLaw Partnership.

Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement

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UVA Health
Charlottesville, Va.

Scientist develops experimental drug that reverses MS-related paralysis and vision loss in lab model

A UVA Health scientist has developed an experimental drug that reversed paralysis and vision loss in a laboratory mouse model of multiple sclerosis (MS), offering a potential new therapy for a disease that currently has no cure.

Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement

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UMass Memorial Health – Harrington
Charlton, Mass.

Wound care center offers treatment for hard-to-heal wounds

The Wound Care Center at Harrington at Charlton, part of UMass Memorial Health, offers hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat complex wounds such as severe diabetic foot ulcers, burns, gangrene, and infections of tissues or bone that cause tissue death.

Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement

Bingham Memorial Hospital
Idaho

Two east Idaho hospitals launch program to improve cancer biopsy testing

Bingham Memorial Hospital is playing a leading role in a first-of-its-kind cancer care initiative in the Pacific Northwest through a partnership with Portneuf Medical Center and Virchow Medical. The hospitals are using the Crow’s Nest Biopsy Catchment System to capture and preserve tumor cells typically discarded after routine biopsies.

Prevention and Wellness

UVA Health
Charlottesville, Va.

Scientist develops experimental drug that reverses MS-related paralysis and vision loss in lab model

Prevention and Wellness

Patrick Grace, M.D., assistant chief medical officer for the UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital, and Victoria Camenisch, a quality improvement clinical facilitator nurse and the lead facilitator for UK HealthCare’s sepsis task force, launched a sepsis screening protocol for patients arriving at the emergency department. Photo courtesy of Alexis Baker, University of Kentucky Creative Services.

UK HealthCare
Lexington, Kentucky

New emergency department screening tool supports early sepsis detection

UK HealthCare’s Albert B. Chandler Hospital has introduced a new emergency department screening protocol to help clinicians identify and treat sepsis sooner.

Prevention and Wellness

Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare
Saint Paul, Minn.

From Pediatric to Adult Care: Making the Transition Work

In this conversation, Tori Bahr, M.D., section chief of pediatrics at Gillette Children’s, shares how healthcare teams can improve the transition from pediatric to adult care through early planning, coordinated care teams, and a more personalized approach to patient needs.

Workforce

Colquitt Regional Health System
Georgia

Solving Georgia’s Healthcare Staffing Crisis Locally

Jim Matney is President and CEO of Colquitt Regional Health System.

Workforce

BayCare Health System
Florida

Florida's Workforce Shortage: Remedy for the Future of Care

In this conversation, Nikki Daily, chief team resources officer at BayCare Health System, discusses how the organization is addressing that challenge by building career pathways, developing apprenticeships, and partnering with community organizations to create opportunities for the healthcare workforce.

Workforce

Harrison Memorial Hospital (Ky.) Banner Health (Ariz.), Dartmouth Health (N.H.), Hutchinson Regional Medical Center (Kan.), University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (Ark.), Western Wisconsin Health (Wis.)

Frontiers: The People Powering Rural Maternal Care

In part two of this special three-part Advancing Health podcast series, hear how leaders are creating new pathways into the workforce, investing in training, and bringing together the skills and expertise needed to support families in rural communities.

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

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Providence Holy Cross Medical Center
Mission Hills, Calif.

Safety first: The tool Providence Holy Cross Medical Center is using to stem firearm accidents

At Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in California, getting the right tools in the hands of gun owners is helping prevent tragic ends from occurring.

Benefiting Communities

Montana Teen Donates Children's Books to St. Vincent Healthcare for Nearly a Decade

Aiden Fouhy is high school senior, a resident of rural Montana, and an aspiring airplane pilot. In his spare time, Aiden is also a traveling bookmobile.

Benefiting Communities

Sutter employees stand in a kitchen with bags of food

Sutter Health
Sacramento, Calif.

How Sutter Health diverts food surplus to feed the hungry — and saves emissions

Food insecurity and food surplus exist at opposite ends of the spectrum, but they go hand in hand when it comes to their impact on public health. Sutter Health observed these barriers to public health within their communities, so they partnered with innovative surplus redistribution tool Copia and collaborated with local organizations to solve them.

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.

Benefiting Communities

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Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center
Hackensack, N.J.

Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center Performs Milestone 300th Organ Transplant on Grateful 37-Year-Old Patient from Teaneck

For some people a lucky number might be a winning lotto ticket. Thirty-seven-year old Jose Vasquez of Teaneck, NJ, did win the lotto in a manner of speaking. His fortunate number: 300.

Benefiting Communities

A nurse midwife in scrubs helps a woman attend to her infant

OSF Healthcare
Peoria, Ill.

Certified midwives tapped to eliminate ‘maternity care deserts,’ expand OB/GYN services in Illinois

Women's access to specialized health care is expanding in Illinois because of a collaboration between Bloomington's Advanced Women's Healthcare and OSF Healthcare to integrate certified midwives into OSF Healthcare's system.

Benefiting Communities

Caitlin Ingebritson, M Health Fairview Project SEARCH intern

M Health Fairview Lakes Medical Center
Wyoming, Minn.

Seeking interns, M Health Fairview leans on Project SEARCH

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

Sublette County Health building exterior rendering

Pinedale’s New $73.8 Million Hospital Will Bridge Western Wyoming Health Care Gap

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.