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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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Ensuring Access to Care
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HaysMed, Gove County Medical Center, Scott County Hospital, Clara Barton Medical Center
Kansas

7 Kansas rural hospitals form network to strengthen independence, advance value-based care
Seven independent rural hospitals have joined forces to launch the Kansas High Value Network, a new collaborative organization designed to expand access to care, improve clinical outcomes and reduce operating costs while preserving local governance.
Ensuring Access to Care
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Jefferson Health
Philadelphia, Pa.

Care Without the Wait: Rethinking Access to Healthcare
In this conversation, Baligh Yehia, M.D., president of Jefferson Health, shares how the organization is rethinking healthcare access through same-day cancer care, virtual primary care, home-based services, and expanded access to clinical trials.
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LCMC Health
New Orleans, La.

Bridge to Care: Better Care Transitions for Opioid Use
This conversation shares how integrated care models, addiction consult services and peer navigators are improving care transitions and increasing access to evidence-based treatment.
Benefiting Communities
Patients sit in a group speaking with a health worker in scrubs

Alaska Native Medical Center
Anchorage, Alaska

Alaska Hospital Creates a Healing Environment for Patients in Recovery
In Anchorage, hospital beds are increasingly occupied by patients who are medically ready to leave but have nowhere to go while they wait for short-term nursing and rehabilitation services. To help address this growing challenge, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is building a new skilled nursing facility on the Alaska Native Medical Center campus.
Benefiting Communities
Older women sat in a row

CHI St. Alexius Health Williston
Williston, N.D.

CHI St. Alexius Health Williston launches behavioral health program for older adults
CHI St. Alexius Health Williston has a new outpatient program to address the growing mental health needs of older adults in northwestern North Dakota.
Benefiting Communities
A therapist sits with a child using emotion flashcards

University of New Mexico Hospital Children’s Psychiatric Center
Albuquerque, N.M.

New Mexico hospital's Children’s Psychiatric Center enhances behavioral healthcare for children and adolescents
The University of New Mexico Hospital has completed a major expansion and modernization of its Children’s Psychiatric Center in Albuquerque.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
Patient sits next to his hospital bed eating a hospital meal

Hackensack Meridian Health
Edison, N.J.

How NJ's Largest Health Network is Fixing an $8B National Crisis in Parkinson's Care
Hospital care for people with Parkinson’s disease costs nearly $8 billion annually and places about one in six hospitalized patients at significant risk for an avoidable complication due to healthcare systems that are not designed to meet their unique, time-sensitive needs.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
A physical therapist working with a young girl patient

Children's Hospital Colorado
Aurora, Colo.

Colorado hospital helps develop national standards for cognitive and developmental care in sickle cell disease
Children’s Hospital Colorado helped the National Alliance of Sickle Cell Centers develop new national standards to improve how developmental and cognitive challenges are identified and managed in people with sickle cell disease (SCD).
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
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Children’s Mercy Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri

Heart transplant gives Kansas teen new outlook after lifelong cardiac battle
A 16-year-old Kansas patient is looking toward a future with fewer health limitations after receiving a heart transplant at Children’s Mercy Kansas City.
Prevention and Wellness
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Cone Health
Greensboro, N.C.

Pregnancy and the Heart: Why Teamwork Matters
Maternal mortality remains a critical challenge in the United States, and many pregnancy complications are linked to chronic health conditions, including cardiovascular disease.
Prevention and Wellness
Cancer patient in hospital bed smiling at health worker

University of Washington Medicine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Seattle, Wash.

Seattle hospital screening program connects patients to lifesaving cancer care
The University of Washington Medicine and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Colorectal Cancer Screening Program is helping more people detect colorectal cancer early through at-home tests, clinician outreach and patient navigation support.
Prevention and Wellness
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NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue
New York

The First Chapter: Literacy and Bonding in the NICU
In this conversation, Gabriela Jimenez Thompson, program lead of Our Story Begins at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, and Liliana Escobar, R.N., NICU head nurse at Bellevue Hospital Center, share how the Our Story Begins program uses books, reading, language and nurse education to strengthen NICU parent engagement, bonding and early childhood development.
Workforce
A nurse hands a newborn to a mother in hospital bed

UAMS, Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas
Arkansas

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences develops new toolkit to help hospitals integrate doulas
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation has launched the Advancing Doulas and Perinatal Teams Toolkit, a new resource designed to help hospitals better integrate doulas into maternal care teams and improve outcomes for mothers and infants.
Workforce
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M Health Farview
Minneapolis, Minn.

How APPs Can Ease the Healthcare Workforce Crisis
Hospitals and health systems can't meet growing patient demand without full leveraging advanced practice providers (APPs).
Workforce
Linda Bos and her three daughters — Lydia Hollemans, Naomi Palmbos and Anika Bos — each serve in different areas across the Michigan Health-West health system.

University of Michigan Health-West
Michigan

Under one roof: A family of nurses working throughout University of Michigan Health-West
At University of Michigan Health-West, a unique family story is unfolding through the work of four dedicated nurses from the Bos family.
Benefiting Communities
NYC Health + Hospitals team in front of Chromatic Symphony of Greater Harlem
NYC Health + Hospitals Unveils New Community Mural
NYC Health + Hospitals understands that the path to healing comes in many forms, including art.
Benefiting Communities
Advancing Health Podcast
A Portfolio of Community Investment With Advocate Health
Hospitals and health systems are rightly called cornerstones of their communities, and none take that mission more seriously than Advocate Health.
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M Health Fairview St. John's staff stands in doorway of unit

M Health Fairview St. John’s Hospital
Maplewood, Minn.

Minnesota hospital imports new rooms, eases strain on emergency department
Leaders at M Health Fairview St. John’s Hospital in Minnesota are addressing crowding and capacity constraints by opening a new, 16-bed short-stay and observation unit.
Benefiting Communities
Corewell Health K9 security officer Rex and patient tech Grace Bing

Corewell Health
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Corewell Health K9 retires, but not before coming full-circle with one of his patients
Rex, a 10-year-old German Sheppard that has served as a resident security police K9 for Corewell Health since 2014, retired last August. But before leaving the health system's hallways forever, he reunited with a familiar face he once comforted.
Benefiting Communities
Virtua, Michaels leaders at groundbreaking stand ouside in front of a large rendering
In Camden: Virtua, Michaels start on $24M affordable housing medical campus
Virtua Health, one of South Jersey’s biggest health care providers, is leading the way in partnership with The Michaels Organization to construct a 60,000-square-foot, multiuse building with 47 apartments as well as a medical practice in Camden.
Benefiting Communities
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A ‘Sweet Home’ for new health center enables access to basic family care – and a pharmacy
Samaritan Health Services recently cut the ribbon on a new family health center in a rural Oregon town to ensure local access to family practice and urgent care services, thus filling a gap in care for a community where locals were forced to travel out of town to receive not just basic care, but to fill basic prescription needs.
Benefiting Communities
Rosebud eCare Telemedicine. Stock photo of a clinician's hands holding a smart phone bearning an app screen with Rx and pills on it

Rosebud Health Care Center
Forsyth, Mont.

New eCARE Pharmacy telemedicine program launching soon
Fueled by a charitable grant, the eCARE Pharmacy telemedicine program allows RHCC and other facilities share the services of a professional pharmacist at a fraction of what it would cost each facility to have its own 24/7 pharmacist.
Benefiting Communities
Boulder Hospital. Structure being torn down.
What do you do with an old hospital? In Boulder, you recycle it.
A city ordinance passed in 2020 prohibits massive deconstruction project debris from being hauled away to the dump. Instead, most of the material left from the brick-by-brick demolition of the Boulder Community Health hospital has been recycled and repurposed, keeping 60.8 million pounds out of the landfill.
Benefiting Communities
Dartmount Health Child Advocacy center logo featues an adult figure and two smaller child figures in front of a blue heart outline.

Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Lebanon, N.H.

Carving out safe spaces for children who are victims of abuse, neglect
In New Hampshire’s Upper Valley region, the Child Advocacy Center of Grafton and Sullivan counties at the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center aims to combat child abuse and neglect by providing a safe place for children and families when there are concerns about these issues in their lives.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
A female doctor listens to an older male patient's heart

Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, S.C.

For A-fib Patients, a Life Without Blood Thinners
For years, the first-line treatment for atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, has been blood thinners. A-fib, which is a cardiac rhythm abnormality, can lead to other health complications, including strokes — it’s estimated that 90% of all strokes happen in patients who have A-fib.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
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Monmouth Medical Center
Long Branch N.J.

New Robotic Platform Technologies are Helping Transform Early Lung Cancer Diagnoses
A triple-whammy of advanced new diagnostic and treatment options holds the promise for better outcomes for New Jersey lung cancer patients.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
a younger person holds holding the hand of an elderly person sitting under a knitted blanket

Mon Health Medical Center
Morgantown, W.Va.

At Mon Health Medical Center, volunteers provide comfort, care during patient’s final days
Mon Health Medical Center in Morgantown, W.Va., recently began its chapter of the nationwide project No One Dies Alone, which uses volunteers to provide comfort and companionship in a patient’s final moments.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
a female clinician sits in an exam room talking with an overweight female patient

Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, S.C.

How MUSC uses telehealth to reduce ED wait times
The ED team at the Medical University of South Carolina has embraced a solution that has reduced waiting times during certain hours and brought the number of patients who leave before being seen to almost zero.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
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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.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
St. Petersburg Clinician with 3D mammography machine

Petersburg Medical Center
Petersburg, Ala.

Petersburg Medical Center delivers gentler, more effective breast cancer screenings
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
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Carilion Clinic
Roanoke, Va.

The 2024 Quest for Quality Prize Honorees
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
Telling the Hospital Story. UC Davis Health Developed Technology Translates Brain Signals into Speech with 97% Accuracy. A clinician works with a patient using technology that converts brain signals to speech using laptop computers.

UC Davis Health
Sacramento, Calif.

UC Davis Health-Developed Technology Translates Brain Signals into Speech with 97% Accuracy
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 Doctors Use Collarbone to Create New Upper Arm for Young Patient. A doctor in gloves holds the hands of a young patient to test the strength in his arms and hands.

UC Davis Health
Sacramento, Calif.

UC Davis Health Doctors Use Collarbone to Create New Upper Arm for Young Patient
UC Davis Health in Sacramento, Calif. performed a rare procedure that involved using a child's collarbone to create a new upper arm.