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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
hands hold fresh tomatoes above a basket of vegetables

Trinity Health
Michigan

Trinity Health’s farm program brings Food as Medicine to community tables
Trinity Health Michigan’s The Farm has been connecting healthy eating with better health outcomes for community members since its start in 2010.
Ensuring Access to Care
Intermountain flight team transporting patient on a gurney

Intermountain Health
Utah

Utah toddler and family grateful for the flight team that saved her life
What began as a holiday trip to visit grandparents on a church mission in Uruguay turned into a life-threatening medical emergency for 3-year-old Estelle Santiago of Midway, Utah.
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.
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
woman's hands holding a red plastic heart

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
Woman compares diaper packages in a drug store

Beacon Health System
Indiana

Beacon Health System’s B.A.B.E program helps support new parents
Beacon Health System’s Benefiting Area Babies Equally (B.A.B.E.) program is helping families build healthy foundations for their children by turning positive parenting actions into tangible rewards.
Prevention and Wellness
National Blood Clot Alliance logo

Saint Francis Hospital
Oklahoma

Oklahoma hospital recognized as a center of excellence for blood clot treatment
Saint Francis Hospital has earned national recognition as Oklahoma’s first National Blood Clot Alliance Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Center of Excellence.
Prevention and Wellness
advancing-health-podcast

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.
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
advancing-health-podcast

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.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Poster - COVID-19 Vaccine: 6 Facts you need to know, Children's Mercy, Kansas City

Children’s Mercy Kansas City
Kansas City, Mo.

Children’s Mercy Kansas City launches nation’s first pediatric NASA-inspired operations center
Children’s Mercy Kansas City has launched a first-of-its-kind Patient Progression Hub that uses artificial intelligence, predictive analytics and real-time information to optimize care progression
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Telling the Hospital Story: New Addiction Center Innovates Care for Substance Use Disorders
Treating substance use disorder is complicated, requiring a combination of behavioral and physical health care that differs from substance to substance and person to person. The new Kahlert Institute for Addiction Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine opened June 14 and aims to be at the forefront of addiction research and treatment.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
The Players Center dedication ceremony

Nemours Children’s Hospital
Orlando, Fla.

Wolfson’s Children’s Hospital
Jacksonville, Fla.

Telling the Hospital Story: New Cancer Center Provides One Stop for Patients, Families
THE PLAYERS Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, a collaboration between Nemours Children’s Health, Jacksonville, and Wolfson’s Children’s hospital, combines state-of-the-art technology with settings that contribute to the wellness of the whole child, no matter their age.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
health worker in full PPE

Intermountain Health
Salt Lake City, Utah

Intermountain Helps Lead Effort to Improve Treatments for Common Conditions Affecting Critically Ill Patients
Researchers from Intermountain Health were chosen as part of a national consortium of healthcare systems and hospitals in a new federally-funded initiative that will use advanced technologies to improve treatment for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), pneumonia, and sepsis.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Doctors at Allegheny General Hospital performing open heart surgery.
Telling the Hospital Story: Allegheny General Hospital
Since 2009, Allegheny General Hospital has permitted potential future medical students to observe live open heart surgeries performed by its surgeons.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Stock image of an emergency department entrance

NYU Langone Health
New York, N.Y.

Telling the Hospital Story: NYU Langone Health
“NYUTron,” a new artificial intelligence program now in use by New York University doctors and hospital executives, can not only read and accurately understand doctors’ notes, it can use them to predict whether a newly discharged patient will soon fall sick enough to be readmitted.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Telling the Hospital Story: MultiCare Deaconess Hospital
MultiCare uses a four-foot-tall robot named Moxi, which moves around the hospital on its own to run errands like taking samples to labs, getting equipment, and delivering medication to providers.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Telling the Hospital Story: Penn Medicine/Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Todd Legg, who is diagnosed with ALS talks with a reporter from Fox 29 Philadelphia on his new treatment at Penn Medicine/Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Telling the Hospital Story: Penn Medicine/Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
ALS has been very hard to treat. A new drug called Qalsody that is now in experimental trials at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia may make it easier.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Telling the Hospital Story: Stanford Medicine Children’s Health
When Eloise (Ellie) McCloskey turned 11, she got the best birthday present she and her family could have asked for: a phone call from Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, telling her a donor heart — which Ellie desperately needed — had been identified for her.