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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
Reading Hospital Aims to Help Employees do Good
Reading Hospital recently announced that staff will be able to do volunteer work while on the clock through the Community Outreach and Engagement (CORE) program.
Benefiting Communities
Southern Utah hospitals get high marks for encouraging breastfeeding
A trio of Utah hospitals run by Intermountain Health are making sure that the best practice of breastfeeding has taken firm hold within their walls.
Benefiting Communities
Hackensack Raritan Behavioral Health ribbon cutting
Hackensack Meridian Health Opens State-of-the-Art Carrier Behavioral Health
Carrier Behavioral Health at Raritan Bay Medical Center represents a significant expansion of behavioral health treatment options to the Perth Amboy, New Jersey area residents served by the health system.
Benefiting Communities
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Penn State Health Lancaster Medical Center
Lancaster, Pa.

Gratitude Memorialized
Penn State Health Lancaster Medical Center’s “The Gratitude Project” memorializes the stories of its health care workers while they navigated the COVID-19 pandemic.
Benefiting Communities
American Hospital Association recognizes Lewis County General Hospital for 75 years in AHA
AHA recently honored Lewis County General Hospital for 75 years of membership and for its continued commitment to serving their patients and communities.
Benefiting Communities
Community Hospital sign on Anderson Community Farm

Community Hospital Anderson
Anderson, Ind.

Community Hospital Anderson opens $2.5 million farm expansion to donate more to local food pantries
A farm owned and operated by Community Hospital Anderson in Indiana recently completed a $2.5 million expansion that is expected to produce 30,000 pounds of produce per year to be shared with local food pantries to help address food insecurity across Madison County.
Benefiting Communities
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center. A physical therapist helps an aged patient lift a weight.
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center’s Behavioral Health Services Joins ‘Age-Friendly Health Systems’ Initiative
Wyoming’s Cheyenne Regional Medical Center has joined more than 2,700 hospitals, outpatient clinics and health systems nationwide as participants in the “Age-Friendly Health Systems” initiative.
Benefiting Communities
Filled grocery bags stand lined up at a food pantry

Baptist Health
Little Rock, Ark.

Baptist Health’s Food Rx Program
Baptist Health recognizes the financial constraints that many patients face, and, in response, developed the Food Rx Program to provide nonperishable food items to patients who have an immediate need.
Benefiting Communities
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Our Lady of the Lakes Regional Medical Center
Baton Rouge, La.

Many Viewpoints Shape the Health Care in Baton Rouge
Our Lady of the Lakes Regional Medical Center is among the founders of Healthy BR, a regional approach to identifying community societal and health factors across a wide range of areas and industries.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
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How AI software is helping patients and providers in Western Washington
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
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New Kaiser Permanente Northern California lab doubles genetic testing capacity
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
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Norton Children's Hospital
Louisville, Ky.

At Norton Children's Hospital, the tiniest babies get specialized care
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
Cedars Sinai XAIA
Artificial Intelligence and Spatial Computing Provide Mental Health Support
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.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
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It Starts with Culture: Quality and Safety at Emerson Health
In this "Safety Speaks" conversation, Christi Barney, R.N., vice president of quality and patient safety at Emerson Health, discusses their innovative approach to culture building, and how quality and safety trainings for all stakeholders drove buy-in and measurable success across the health system.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
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Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 
New York, N.Y.

Despite AI Advancements, Human Oversight Remains Essential
The introduction of artificial intelligence-driven technology into health care continues at a brisk pace, with sometimes uneven results.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
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Medical University of South Carolina Health
Charleston, S.C.

Two heart transplants in one day showcase cardiac transplant team
A heart transplant comes close to a miracle for those who need it. It takes many hands to make that miracle happen: A team including surgeons, operating room staff, heart and lung machine specialists, physicians and others must work together to ensure a successful surgery. It’s a careful balance, and one that the Medical University of South Carolina recently pulled off twice in one day.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
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West Virginia University Medicine Children Hospital
Morgantown, W.Va.

New treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy brings hope to a West Virginia boy
Thanks to West Virginia University Medicine Children’s six-year-old Alexander Shell was among the first patients in the country — and the first in West Virginia — to receive the first dose of ELEVIDYS gene therapy.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Mother in hospital gown sits cradling swaddled newborn to her chest

Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center
Woodbridge, Va.

Extra Help for C-Section Moms
Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center is offering a new postpartum rehabilitation program specifically targeted to moms who underwent C-sections.