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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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Building Healthy Communities
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University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Neb.

The Next Outbreak: Hantavirus, Ebola, and Hospital Readiness
In this conversation, Angela Hewlett, M.D., professor of infectious diseases at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and medical director of the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, explains how her team helped monitor and care for Americans exposed to the Andes hantavirus strain, the only known hantavirus capable of person-to-person transmission.
Building Healthy Communities
The Canyon County EMS whole-blood transfusion team stands in front of a Canyon County Paramedics ambulance

Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center
Boise, Idaho

Bringing life-saving prehospital blood transfusions directly to patients in Idaho
Saint Alphonsus, in partnership with Canyon County Paramedics and the American Red Cross, has launched Idaho’s first ground‑based EMS whole‑blood transfusion program.
Building Healthy Communities
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University of Illinois Chicago

Menopause Matters: Closing Gaps in Care and Awareness
University of Illinois Chicago's Pauline Maki, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry, psychology, and obstetrics and gynecology, and Makeba Williams, M.D., professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, unpack why menopause care is finally having a breakthrough moment.
Ensuring Access to Care
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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.
Ensuring Access to Care
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Providence St. Peter Hospital
Washington

Bridge to Care: Strengthening Opioid Recovery
In this conversation, Heidi Bray, DNP, nurse practitioner and hospitalist at Providence St. Peter Hospital, explores how hospitals can improve opioid use disorder treatment.
Ensuring Access to Care
Telling the Hospital Story - Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City Image of two hands holding kidney artwork

Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
Kansas City, Kansas

Living Donor Transplant Gives Patient New Life at Saint Luke’s
Saint Luke’s is a leader in transplantation and is committed to expanding access to living kidney donation.
Benefiting Communities
Pennsylvania Hospital Museum

Pennsylvania Hospital
Pennsylvania

America’s oldest hospital becomes Philadelphia’s newest museum
Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation’s first chartered hospital, celebrated its 275th anniversary by opening the Pennsylvania Hospital Museum in May 2026.
Benefiting Communities
A clinician at Artesia General Hospital uses Microsoft Dragon Copilot, an AI-powered clinical assistant that records patient conversations, transcribes them, and updates electronic health records automatically.

Artesia General Hospital
New Mexico

At one rural New Mexico hospital, doctors turn to AI tools
Dr. Peter Jewell, a family medicine physician at the 25-bed Artesia General Hospital in rural New Mexico, has adopted Microsoft Dragon Copilot, an AI-powered clinical assistant that records patient conversations, transcribes them, and updates electronic health records automatically.
Benefiting Communities
Hands practicing chest compressions on a dummy

Corewell Health
Michigan

Corewell Health and Champions of the Heart Foundation bring cardiac emergency response training to residents
Corewell Health and the Champions of the Heart Foundation are joining forces to expand emergency preparedness and lifesaving training across Michigan, aiming to equip more residents with the skills needed to respond to cardiac emergencies.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
Texas Children's Hospital heart transplant patients Ahmed, Nasir and Preston

Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, Texas

The power of friendship helps three young patients through heart transplants
Three young heart patients at Texas Children’s Hospital turned a difficult medical journey into an inspiring story of friendship, resilience and hope.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
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Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, Texas

How Houston Methodist is integrating remote monitoring to boost patient experience
Houston Methodist is transforming their inpatient care through remote monitoring technology that gives clinicians a continuous view of a patient’s condition instead of traditional vital-sign checks every four hours.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
A patient room on the campus of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska Medical Center for hantavirus patients.

Nebraska Medicine - Nebraska Medical Center
Nebraska

U.S. citizens on hantavirus cruise ship monitored at Nebraska Medicine
In May, U.S. passengers from the international cruise ship where a hantavirus outbreak began were transported to Omaha, Neb., to be monitored in the National Quarantine Unit on the campus of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Prevention and Wellness
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Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, Texas

Giving Families and Kids an upSTART for Better Health
In this conversation, Nancy Correa, DrPH, director of population health at Texas Children's Hospital, and Beth Van Horne, DrPH, director of research for the Division of Public Health Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, discuss the upSTART program, a comprehensive initiative that combines homegrown innovation with evidence-based care.
Prevention and Wellness
Joe Ferone with his clinicians at Hartford Hospital.

Hartford Hospital
Hartford, Conn.

Patient’s lifelong struggle with substance use disorder has happy, hopeful ending
For Joe Ferone, the journey from experiencing substance use disorder and homelessness to attaining recovery and stability has been long and difficult yet ultimately filled with hope.
Prevention and Wellness
Heads Up: Foundations for Youth Mental Health poster

Dartmouth Health Children’s
Lebanon, N.H. 

Health system's ‘Heads Up’ series supports young people’s mental well-being
Dartmouth Health Children’s has launched a new season of its “Heads Up” mental health awareness series focused on children, titled “Heads Up: Foundations for Youth Mental Health.”
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.
Workforce
An infant holds a parent's pink finger

Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns
San Diego, Calif.

High-risk pregnancy gives doctor new perspective at Sharp Mary Birch
At Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns in San Diego, Nick Saade, M.D., saw the patient experience from a different perspective — as a husband and expectant father.
Workforce
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Gottlieb Memorial Hospital
Melrose Park, Ill.

Real Solutions to Workplace Violence
In recognition of #HAVHope Day on June 5th, Sarah Hunter, president of Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, explores the innovative approaches her team is using to reduce workplace violence. From a simple but effective buddy system to stronger partnerships with public safety agencies and community leaders, hear real-world solutions that help healthcare workers focus on what they do best — caring for patients.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
N.J. Health System is Nation’s First to Achieve The Joint Commission’s Voluntary Sustainability Certification
Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey’s largest health network, is the nation’s first health system to receive a voluntary certification for sustainability from The Joint Commission.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
A clinician manipulates the leg of an elderly man lying prone on an examination table
In Vermont, four seasons of state-of-the-art othopedic care
Copley Hospital and its two orthopedic clinics have highly trained and experienced orthopedic and sports medicine teams to meet the health needs of people in their communities.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Sharp Memorial Hospital’s “heartfelt” approach to predicting future strokes
At Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego, health care providers use a technology called robotic transcranial Doppler (TCD), to identify PFOs in the heart and determine a patient’s likelihood of ischemic stroke.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
A young woman stands in a field holding and kissing a Corgi puppy
Texas Children's Brain Tumor Research for Dogs Could Teach News Tricks for Treating Humans
In a pioneering study, researchers from Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital and the Texas A&M University School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) uncovered extreme genetic similarities between brain tumors in humans and dogs. Published in the Acta Neuropathologica journal, the research could help uncover effective new treatments for both humans and canines.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
older women shown outdoors in a walking club
Thank your active mom for your healthy heart, say researchers investigating impact of pregnancy exercise
Heart health starts in the womb, according to researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, who found that babies had better heart health after birth when their mothers exercised, even moderately, throughout pregnancy.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
clinicians sit at a desk with computer monitors displaying lung scans

University of Missouri Health Care
Columbia, Mo.

‘We can complete that puzzle’: MU Health Care taps new diagnostic to improve lung disease treatment
MU Health Care is just the second hospital in the U.S. to perform lung scans using xenon MRI, a groundbreaking technology that promises to greatly improve providers’ abilities to evaluate lung diseases like cystic fibrosis, asthma, COPD and cancer.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
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Screening Newborns for Jaundice Using Smartphone Cameras
Intermountain Health and Picterus AS, a Norwegian health technology company, are building an application using the smartphone’s camera that can determine bilirubin levels in infants accurately at home.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
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Harborview Medical Center, UW Medicine
Seattle, Wa.

Mpox patients gain days of clarity, as Harborview Medical Center clinicians became adept at early identification
Recent research findings, authored in part by UW Medicine, showed that during western Washington’s 2022 mpox outbreak, emergency response teams were highly accurate at identifying suspected mpox and providing same-day care.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Seattle, Wa.

A Fred Hutch clinical trial gave this cancer patient a chance and he’s been running with it for 22 years
Clinical trial participants are often the unsung heroes of medicine. Clinical research investigates new ways to prevent, detect and treat illness, and the courageous patients who participate in it play a foundational role in that process.