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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
Kansas High Value Network logo

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
advancing-health-podcast

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.
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.
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
A BMS chef stands in a garden holding produce, surrounded by smiling neighborhood children.

Boston Medical Center
Boston, Ma.

Boston Medical Center is the Hub of Community Care
Boston Medical Center considers every aspect of health: physical, mental, emotional, and even financial, and finds a way to nourish it.
Benefiting Communities
This North Jersey hospital is the first in the nation to receive an equity certification
Hackensack University Medical Center has opened the Helena Theurer Pavilion, a new 530,000-square-foot, nine-story surgical and intensive care tower to help address health equity and work with the community to address areas of need.
Benefiting Communities
Hundreds attend AtlantiCare Community Health Fair to celebrate, care and connect
New Jerseyites turned out by the hundreds to attend AlantiCare’s Federally Qualified Health Center’s annual community health fair at Atlantic Cape Community College in Atlantic City August 11.
Benefiting Communities
A chubby cheeked baby is examined with a stethoscope

Children's Hospital Colorado
Denver, Colo.

Children's Hospital Colorado Launches State's First Pediatric Precision Medicine Institute
Children's Hospital Colorado is among the care providers that have recently rolled out personalized medicine to patients.
Benefiting Communities
pink and orangh silhouettes of women in a circle graphic are overlaid with text: Menstrual Products for All

Medical University of South Carolina Children’s Health
Charleston, S.C.

Pixies to the rescue: Fighting period Poverty in South Carolina
The Lowcountry Period Pixies and the Medical University of South Carolina Children’s Health are teaming up to give menstrual products to those who need them.
Benefiting Communities
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Maui Memorial Medical Center
Maui, Hawaii

Maui Memorial Medical Center treats wildfire survivors – here's how you can help
Maui Memorial Medical Center staff have been on the frontlines of treating victims of the devastating wildfires that started burning Aug. 8.
Benefiting Communities
Volunteers pack grocery bags for new mothers

SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital
Madison, Wisc.

From soup to nuts, how St. Mary's Hospital in Wisconsin is aiding new mothers in need
To help mothers in need of food following childbirth, SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital in Madison, Wisc., is providing baskets of groceries to those who need it as part of a new program.
Benefiting Communities
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Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kansas City Mo.

Strength through mindfulness: Children's Mercy Kansas City to open depression and anxiety clinic for local youth
A new depression and anxiety clinic has been opened by Children's Mercy Kansas City as the first of 14 mental health projects the hospital is launching during the next five years
Benefiting Communities
News reel still of M Health Fairview building

Fairview Health Services
Minneapolis Minn.

A patient cuts his foot at a bonfire. Now he’s part of a major milestone for M Health Fairview
By serving as “kidney transplant patient 10,001,” Dale Sorensen becomes the face of M Health Fairview’s major milestone.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
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Valley Health System
Winchester, Va.

Unifying Hospital Boards on Quality and Safety
In this new “Safety Speaks” conversation, Harry S. Smith, board chair of Valley Health System and member of the AHA Committee on Governance, discusses how their organization rearranged its governance system to ensure that quality and patient safety standards were being met across the board.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
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Henry Ford Health 
Detroit, Michigan

Optimizing Whole Person Care Through Integration
In this conversation, Cathrine Frank, M.D., chair of psychiatry and behavioral health services at Henry Ford Health, shares how they utilize a virtual team approach to provide reachable care.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement

Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston

Kidney transplant patient, surgeons advance organ transplantation with groundbreaking procedure
In mid-March 2024, surgeons from the transplant center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a 62-year old man with end-stage kidney disease.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
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Banner Health
Phoenix, Ariz.

Regard and Banner Health expand AI partnership to 33 acute care hospitals
Banner Health has partnered with the clinical decision software company Regard to integrate algorithms and artificial intelligence to generate clinical decisions, documentation and facilitate clinician-to-clinician communications across its 33 acute care hospitals, which cover patients in six states.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Bauer and Dr. Bharat

Northwestern Medicine
Chicago, Ill.

Creative repurposing saves heart during double-lung transplant
Old technology — applied in new and novel ways — can still be a lifesaver.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
advancing-health-podcast

Scripps Health
San Diego, Calif.

How to Survive a Cyberattack with Scripps Health: Part Two
In the second of this two-part conversation, John Riggi, national advisor for cybersecurity and risk at the AHA, and Chris Van Gorder, president & CEO of Scripps Health, explore the underdiscussed aspects in the aftermath of a cyber-attack, and the need for cybersecurity standards and protection from the federal government.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
photo of birth room, hospital bed in background with bassinet in foreground

Norton Women’s and Children’s Hospital
Louisville, Ky.

New labor and delivery rooms give new parents more options
When parents-to-be opt to deliver their baby at a birthing center, it’s often because they want more freedom to choose their birth experience — such as pain management options, comfort techniques, assisted deliveries or just a more homelike setting.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
advancing-health-podcast

Scripps Health
San Diego, Calif.

How to Survive a Cyberattack with Scripps Health: Part One
In part one of this two-part conversation, Chris Van Gorder, president and CEO of Scripps Health, joins John Riggi, national advisor for cybersecurity and risk at the AHA, to talk about how his organization responded when cybercriminals attacked and breached the defenses of the well-prepared health system.
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.