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Hospitals Leading the Way to a Healthier America
Hospitals have always been at the heart of community health empowering healthier, happier lives for all.
AHA Launches New Multimedia Advertising Campaign to Promote Hospitals
The campaign includes a commercial that will run on national, cable, and digital TV and digital advertising.
New Resources Spotlight Crucial Role of Rural Hospitals and Health Systems
The AHA released new resources to help rural hospitals and health systems share their stories and highlight the vital role they play in their communities.
Creative repurposing saves heart during double-lung transplant
Old technology — applied in new and novel ways — can still be a lifesaver.
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Building Healthy Communities
Kaiser Permanente Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii
This holiday season, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii is strengthening food security across the Aloha State by supporting nonprofits that expand access to nutritious, locally grown food.
Building Healthy Communities
AdventHealth Littleton
Littleton, Colo.
Lisa Hackett, an occupational therapist at AdventHealth Littleton, understands the profound impact of concussions through personal experience.
Building Healthy Communities
Sharon Hospital
Sharon, Conn.
The Senior Behavioral Health Unit at Sharon Hospital, which serves rural northwestern Connecticut, provides short-term inpatient psychiatric care for adults age 55 or older.
Ensuring Access to Care
M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center
Minneapolis
As pharmacy closures accelerate nationwide, M Health Fairview is proving what’s possible when a health system steps up.
Ensuring Access to Care
Tufts Medicine
Boston, Mass.
The Tufts Medicine Center for Health Literacy Research + Practice works to reduce health literacy barriers for patients, families, clinicians and health care organizations.
Ensuring Access to Care
Western Wisconsin Health
Baldwin, Wis.
Eilidh Pederson, CEO at Western Wisconsin Health, shares lessons from her unique birth experience, and outlines how rural hospitals can continue to provide needed access to safe, high-quality maternity health services.
Benefiting Communities
NewYork-Presbyterian
New York, N.Y.
NewYork-Presbyterian announced the launch of its Hospital-at-Home program in November, designed to provide hospital-level care to eligible patients in the comfort of their homes.
Benefiting Communities
Providence St. Patrick Hospital
Missoula, Mont.
Providence, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health systems, has partnered with Missoula’s Providence St. Patrick Hospital and the University of Montana to launch RESOLVE, a groundbreaking rural health collaborative.
Benefiting Communities
Froedtert West Bend Hospital
West Bend, Wis.
Froedtert West Bend Hospital has expanded its breast milk donation program to mothers and babies not only in the hospital but also the surrounding region.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
Henry Ford Health
Detroit, Mich.
In this conversation, Wendy Kim, DNP, R.N., vice president and chief nursing officer of the central market at Henry Ford Health, shares how the system's virtual nursing program is reducing documentation burden, improving patient safety and giving nurses more time at the bedside.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
University Hospitals
Cleveland, Ohio
NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is testing portable, handheld X-ray systems that could allow crews to diagnose injuries such as broken bones or dental issues without returning to Earth.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
Providence Alaska Medical Center
Anchorage, Ala.
This fall, Providence Alaska Medical Center launched a new mobile mammography coach designed to bring high-quality breast cancer screening directly to rural communities across the state.
Prevention and Wellness
Care New England Health System
Providence, R.I.
As people age, bone mass starts to decline — for some, beginning as early as their 30s — and can be exacerbated by medical conditions, medications or lifestyle choices. Weak bones can lead to osteopenia and osteoporosis, which is called a “silent” disease because a person typically does not have symptoms and may not know they have the disease until a bone breaks.
Prevention and Wellness
Kaiser Permanente Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii
This holiday season, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii is strengthening food security across the Aloha State by supporting nonprofits that expand access to nutritious, locally grown food.
Prevention and Wellness
LCMC Health
New Orleans, La.
When Enzo woke up in the ICU at University Medical Center New Orleans, he couldn’t feel his legs. A car accident had fractured his C5 vertebra, and his dream of attending the University of Notre Dame to study mechanical engineering and music, suddenly felt out of reach.
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Decatur Memorial Hospital
Decatur, Ill.
Decatur Memorial Hospital (DMH) is celebrating a major milestone as its Nurse Anesthesia Program reaches 60 years of educating skilled professionals for Central Illinois and beyond.
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Loma Linda University Children’s Health
Loma Linda, Calif.,
For Heather Kono, a pediatric oncology nurse at Loma Linda University Children’s Health in California, her journey with the hospital began long before she put on scrubs.
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Unity Medical Center
Grafton, N.D.
What was once going to be empty space is now used for everything from staff meetings to community medical events, but its main purpose is serving as the Rural Medical Education Center, supporting Unity's commitment to health care education at all levels.
Building Healthy Communities
St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center
Boise, Idaho
The St. Luke’s Hospital at Home program, launched in late 2024, provides hospital-level care to patients in the comfort of their homes.
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MaineHealth Maine Medical Center
Portland, Maine
The MaineHealth–Preble Street Learning Collaborative (PSLC) was founded by MaineHealth Maine Medical Center, Preble Street — a nonprofit social service agency — and other community partners to provide outreach, engagement and safe, person-centered care to those experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
Building Healthy Communities
Monadnock Community Hospital’s Mobile Integrated Healthcare (MIH) program is closing care gaps in the rural community of Peterborough, N.H., and the eastern Monadnock region.
Building Healthy Communities
Adventist Health
Bakersfield, Calif.
Adventist Health’s unique mobile clinic — think of it as a doctor's office on wheels — helps families and their children in and around Bakersfield, Calif., by offering immunizations for young people from birth to 19 years old at various locations around Kern County.
Building Healthy Communities
Access to high-quality health care is crucial to a community’s well-being, but it’s not the only component of health.
Building Healthy Communities
University of Maryland Medical System
Eastern Shore, Md.
More than 1 million people in Maryland live in medically underserved areas — mostly on the state’s rural Eastern Shore. The University of Maryland School of Medicine aims to change that.
Building Healthy Communities
Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital, part of MaineHealth, is working to ensure children have access to quality oral health care, even before a child gets their first tooth.
Building Healthy Communities
Los Alamos Medical Center
Los Alamos, N.M.
For area residents of Los Alamos, New Mexico, a terrific new option is available to treat sleep disorders with the opening of a new Sleep Lab during the summer of 2024 that greatly expands treatment capabilities in the region for sleep disorders.
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Banner Desert Medical Center
Mesa, Ariz.
Patients nationwide express a strong preference for health care services that are delivered under one roof whenever possible, and Banner Desert Medical Center has responded with brand new clinic designed to cater specifically to the needs of expectant mothers and their unborn babies.
Ensuring Access to Care
In this conversation, Tracey Lavallias, executive director of behavioral health at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, discusses potential solutions to make access easier for patients.
Ensuring Access to Care
Sharp Grossmont Hospital, in La Mesa, Calif., integrated age-friendly health care into their emergency department and saw significant changes in areas like readmission rates and retention of staff.
Ensuring Access to Care
Talk to a hospital leader and they’ll tell you the story of their impact on the community they serve. Learn how hospitals and health systems go above and beyond for their patients by visiting aha.org/tellingthehospitalstory.
Washington
The Machines Arrive in Rural Washington: How AI is Helping Improve Health Equity
Three Rivers Hospital is leveraging Washington state’s renowned skill in technology to deploy artificial intelligence and machine learning in service of identifying an
Ensuring Access to Care
Three Rivers Hospital is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to help improve cancer survival outcomes in central Washington’s rural Hispanic population.
Ensuring Access to Care
Kaiser Permanente. A young black sitting in an apartment at a table working on a laptop, viewed through a fire escape window
At Kaiser Permanente hospitals, which can be found in eight states and the District of Columbia, care teams understand that whether or not you have a roof over your head makes a paramount impact on your health. Not only does being unhoused exacerbate existing health issues, but poor health can lead to a loss of housing in some cases.
Ensuring Access to Care
The health system is focusing on four strategic pillars to guide its work: Experience (of patients, employees and others); Education and Research Mission (through learning and innovation); Stewardship (to build healthy communities and public trust); and Operational Excellence (to attain financial stability)
Ensuring Access to Care
In this conversation, Julie Dye, clinical nurse specialist in geriatrics at Sharp Grossmont Hospital, discusses the benefits of participating in the Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation program and the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative.
Ensuring Access to Care
The birthing centers at Maine’s Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center, Inland Hospital and Mercy Hospital in 2023 received recognition at the state’s Perinatal Quality Collaborative conference for their work addressing maternal hypertension.
Ensuring Access to Care
Jefferson Health
Philadelphia, Pa.
Jefferson Health has launched "Pride at the Jefferson Center for Healthy Aging," a program dedicated to caring for Philadelphia's aging LGBTQIA+ community, combining clinical care and research efforts to create a primary care home for LGBTQIA+ older adults.
Benefiting Communities
A donation of virtual reality headsets to for pediatric patients at Sanford Medical Center Bismarck has opened new pathways to pain management, anxiety reduction and mental stimulation.
Benefiting Communities
Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital has opened a new Applied Behavior Analysis Clinic in Riverton, Utah, that aims to address the growing need for autism services in the community.
Benefiting Communities
The Ad Council, in partnership with Intermountain Health and a coalition of health care and business leaders, has launched the social impact program "Agree to Agree," an initiative to reduce gun-related tragedies affecting children and teens.
Benefiting Communities
In this Leadership Dialogue conversation, Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health and 2025 AHA board chair, talks with Lori Wightman, R.N., CEO of Bothwell Regional Health Center, about the challenges that rural hospitals and health systems face.
Benefiting Communities
A grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development has prevented the impending closure of Bucktail Medical Center and preserved its ability to deliver essential care to thousands of rural residents of central Pennsylvania.
Benefiting Communities
Valleywise Health
Phoenix, Ariz.
Rachel and Marco Vargas recently welcomed four identical baby girls at Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix, a rare occurrence with odds estimated at one in 40 million.
Benefiting Communities
People in need of immediate help with mental health issues have a new option for treatment with the opening of the Behavioral Health Center at Lancaster General Hospital.
Benefiting Communities
In this Leadership Dialogue conversation, Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health and 2025 AHA board chair, talks with two health care leaders, Lynn Hanessian, former chief health strategist at Edelman, and Robert Trestman, M.D., Ph.D., chair of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at Carilion Clinic.
Benefiting Communities
Shodair Children’s Hospital in Helena, Mont., has launched the Hope Campaign to reduce stigma and encourage conversations about youth mental health.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
When Crystal arrived at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance to deliver her third child, she was met with a new approach to childbirth that immediately put her at ease.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
UVA Health
Charlottesville, Va.
At UVA Health, the iconic orange plastic pill bottle is getting a makeover. Some prescriptions are now being filled in a new, recyclable paper bottle.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tenn.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is growing its integrated, multidisciplinary care for infants and children who have been exposed to opioids while in utero.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, Ark.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is working to enhance their cancer treatment research with a nearly $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Maui, like other Hawaiian Islands, is often referred to as “paradise.” But being an isolated travel destination can be a double-edged sword when it comes to health care delivery.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Traditional chemotherapy is delivered via the bloodstream, making it less effective for metastatic cancers that occur within the peritoneal cavity — such as colorectal, appendiceal, gastric, ovarian and others. Pressurized intraperitoneal aerosolized chemotherapy offers new hope for patients with cancers such as these.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Advocate Children’s Hospital
Oak Lawn, Ill.
East Chicago, Ind., teen Nataly Paramó became the first pediatric heart transplant recipient at the Advocate Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, Ark.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has become the first medical provider in the state to utilize NanoKnife technology for treating prostate cancer.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
In this conversation, Aaron Lewandowski, M.D., emergency medicine physician and the emergency medicine stroke representative at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, and Alex Chebl, M.D., interventional neurologist and director of the Henry Ford Stroke Center and the Division of Vascular Neurology at Henry Ford Health, discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing stroke care.
Prevention and Wellness
Women & Infants Hospital
Providence, R.I.
In this conversation, Women & Infants Hospital's Shannon Sullivan, president and chief operating officer, and Caron Zlotnick, Ph.D., director of behavioral medicine research, discuss the stigma surrounding maternal mental health.
Prevention and Wellness
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital
Lebanon, N.H.
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital’s accredited Sleep Center offers treatment for sleep disorders in adults and children who are over age 3. The hospital, part of Dartmouth Health, serves communities in the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire.
Prevention and Wellness
The Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center (ACNC) is celebrating three decades of groundbreaking research that has significantly improved the health and development of children worldwide.
Prevention and Wellness
Dartmouth Health
Lebanon, N.H.
The Aging Resource Center, part of the health system’s Geriatric Center of Excellence, offers free educational classes, support and services to improve the minds, bodies and spirits of older adults and their families.
Prevention and Wellness
St. Joseph Hospital
Bangor, Maine
More than half of women and nearly one in three men have experienced sexual violence involving physical contact during their lifetime, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Prevention and Wellness
Kent Hospital
Warwick, R.I.
Kent Hospital’s Spaulding Rehabilitation teams offer inpatient and outpatient services, caring for patients recovering from sports injuries, stroke, traumatic brain injury, amputations, concussions, Lyme disease, Parkinson’s disease and more.
Prevention and Wellness
Elizabethtown Community Hospital
Elizabethtown N.Y.
To reduce social isolation and loneliness among older adults and help improve their health and well-being, Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital launched the Community Friendship Volunteer Program in fall 2024.
Prevention and Wellness
Kate Leissler's journey to a healthier life has been filled with determination and resilience.
Prevention and Wellness
Novant Health
Winston Salem, N.C.
In this conversation, Sara Robinson, senior associate healthcare architect at McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture, and Jamie Feinour, vice president of operations at Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center and president of Novant Health Charlotte Orthopedic Hospital, discuss how patient-centered design and innovative architecture come together to create spaces of healing for patients and providers, and how Sara's personal cancer journey impacted the design for Novant Health's Breast Center.
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The UC Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento, Calif., has teamed up with Doctors Medical Center in Modesto to allow residents to practice medicine in the Central Valley as they train to become board-certified specialists.
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Endeavor Health
Evanston, Ill.
In this conversation, Dylan Panuska, PsyD, clinical psychologist and manager of behavioral health integration with Endeavor Health, showcases examples of how workforce productivity, retention and patient satisfaction are positively impacted by a key factor: integration.
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University of Maryland Medical System
Eastern Shore, Md.
More than 1 million people in Maryland live in medically underserved areas — mostly on the state’s rural Eastern Shore. The University of Maryland School of Medicine aims to change that.
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In this conversation, Joanne M. Conroy, M.D., CEO and president of Dartmouth Health, and 2024 chair of the AHA Board of Trustees, shares how Dartmouth Health has implemented workforce solutions that can be successful anywhere.
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In this conversation, Kimberly Wozneak, national lead for Age-Friendly Health Systems, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, discusses how the VHA is weaving four foundational age-friendly principles into its care to support the growing number of aging veterans.
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East Alabama Medical Center
Opelika, Ala.
East Alabama Health, like many health systems, is facing a shortage of nursing professionals. To address the problem, EAH didn’t have to look far – just to their own employees.
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UW Health, Madison, Wis.
American Family Children's Hospital, Madison, Wis.
In this special Veterans Day conversation, Anne Mork, R.N., vice president/chief nursing officer of ambulatory and nursing support services at UW Health, and Luke Sticht, former vice president and chief nursing officer of American Family Children's Hospital, discuss the wealth of knowledge that military health care professionals can bring to organizations, and how their service experience keeps them focused on the mission to care for others.
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In this conversation, Michelle Schweitzer, NP, executive director of advanced practice providers at WakeMed, discusses the growing role her APP colleagues play in health care delivery, and how the rise of these unique caregivers benefits both patients and providers.
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In this conversation, Stacey Ouellette, director of Behavioral Health Integration with Maine Behavioral Healthcare, discusses the positive impact integrated care has had on workplace productivity and satisfaction, and how it's made their teams more connected across the organization.