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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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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.
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AdventHealth Littleton
Littleton, Colo.
Lisa Hackett, an occupational therapist at AdventHealth Littleton, understands the profound impact of concussions through personal experience.
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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
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.
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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.
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Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital
Pennsylvania
When Crozer Health announced its bankruptcy and impending shutdown, Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital stepped in to adopt the residency program, allowing the residents to stay together and continue serving the same communities.
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.
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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.
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Providence Holy Cross Medical Center
Mission Hills, Calif.
At Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in California, getting the right tools in the hands of gun owners is helping prevent tragic ends from occurring.
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Aiden Fouhy is high school senior, a resident of rural Montana, and an aspiring airplane pilot. In his spare time, Aiden is also a traveling bookmobile.
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Sutter Health
Sacramento, Calif.
Food insecurity and food surplus exist at opposite ends of the spectrum, but they go hand in hand when it comes to their impact on public health. Sutter Health observed these barriers to public health within their communities, so they partnered with innovative surplus redistribution tool Copia and collaborated with local organizations to solve them.
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Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center
Hackensack, N.J.
For some people a lucky number might be a winning lotto ticket. Thirty-seven-year old Jose Vasquez of Teaneck, NJ, did win the lotto in a manner of speaking. His fortunate number: 300.
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OSF Healthcare
Peoria, Ill.
Women's access to specialized health care is expanding in Illinois because of a collaboration between Bloomington's Advanced Women's Healthcare and OSF Healthcare to integrate certified midwives into OSF Healthcare's system.
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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.
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Rosebud Health Care Center
Forsyth, Mont.
Fueled by a charitable grant, the eCARE Pharmacy telemedicine program allows RHCC and other facilities share the services of a professional pharmacist at a fraction of what it would cost each facility to have its own 24/7 pharmacist.
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Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Lebanon, N.H.
In New Hampshire’s Upper Valley region, the Child Advocacy Center of Grafton and Sullivan counties at the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center aims to combat child abuse and neglect by providing a safe place for children and families when there are concerns about these issues in their lives.
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Medical University of South Carolina Children’s Health
Charleston, S.C.
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.
Ensuring Access to Care
A new pediatric heart clinic in Troy, Mich., opened by Children's Hospital of Michigan, is handling pre- and post-surgical appointments for area patients, relieving them from much longer commutes to Detroit.
Ensuring Access to Care
Berkshire Medical Center’s Operation Better Start is a collaborative effort among health care providers to help young people and their families make and sustain positive changes in their health.
Ensuring Access to Care
Paramedics in a mobile medical unit from Henry Ford Health are visiting new mothers at home to check their vitals as part of an initiative to help reduce pregnancy-related deaths across Michigan.
Ensuring Access to Care
In April, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics opened a new 30-room short stay unit to help ease overcrowding and streamline the hospital experience for short-term patients requiring observation
Ensuring Access to Care
In May, New Orleans East Hospital joined its LCMC Health sister hospital, Touro, to open a Maternal Fetal Health Clinic to ensure equitable prenatal care is available for patients in eastern New Orleans.
Ensuring Access to Care
ChristianaCare has teamed up with Kuumba Academy Charter School in Wilmington, Delaware, to establish a new student-based health center that will provide onsite preventive care, mental health care and acute care services for all 637 Kuumba Academy students.
Ensuring Access to Care
Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJC) invests millions of dollars and many volunteer hours in the St. Louis community each year, and the impact can be seen in the thousands of people whose lives are better today as a result.
Ensuring Access to Care
Stanford Children’s is committed to improving access to primary care for children, teens and expectant mothers.
Ensuring Access to Care
Holy Cross has established community benefit programs to help residents obtain the care needed to maintain a healthy life and give the next generation of families a healthy start.
Benefiting Communities
Lee Health
Fort Myers, Fla.
In this conversation, Scott Nygaard, M.D., chief operating officer at Lee Health, discusses the impact these natural disasters have had on the organization
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. In this conversation, Andres Nieto, director of community health outreach and marketing with NewYork-Presbyterian, and Jamie Ketas, vice president of population health with Englewood Health, discuss how communities and health systems can intersect to improve quality of life, and how solutions can target populations with specific health care barriers.
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Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital (NVRH), a 25-bed critical access hospital in St. Johnsbury, Vt., is committed to providing “a lifetime of health and well-being” that extends beyond its walls through community health initiatives aimed at keeping people healthy.
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Presbyterian Española Hospital
Espanola, N.M.
In this conversation, Brenda Romero, administrator at Presbyterian Española Hospital, discusses the methods for accessing treatment and the importance of the hospital's innovative and community-focused work.
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Children’s Hospital Colorado
Aurora, Colo.
The recent joining of resources between two regional hospitals will bring increased peace of mind to parents of newborns in the Laramie area of southeast Wyoming.
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Children's Hospital Colorado
Denver, Colo.
Grasping the doctor’s explanation of a necessary treatment or medical procedure for a child can be intimidating for their parents, even more so when it’s not delivered in their primary language.
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A four-year initiative spearheaded by Newton-Wellesley Hospital to support a collaborative of organizations addressing disparities in educational attainment among students in Waltham, Mass., has made positive impacts beyond education and improved overall individual and family well-being.
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Kentucky Children's Hospital
Lexington, Ky.
Caroline Bentley Noble always enjoyed sewing and crafting. She just never envisioned how much it would help her – and others.
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Boston Medical Center
Boston, Ma.
In this conversation, Thea James, M.D., vice president of mission with BMC, discusses the organization's evolution with health disparity work, and how BMC’s creation of the Health Equity Accelerator helped lead the way to achieve health justice in their communities.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston performed its second successful transplant of a genetically edited pig kidney into a living recipient in January 2025.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
The Queen’s Health Systems, based in Honolulu, Hawaii, joined a new collaborative initiative — called Ka Umeke Lama, or “Bowl of Enlightenment” in Hawaiian — that aims to transform cancer care across the islands.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Our Lady of the Lake Ascension has recently implemented the only Food and Drug Administration-cleared sepsis test, IntelliSep, a blood test that can detect sepsis in its early stages.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
TidalHealth Peninsula Regional
Salisbury, Md.
A new treatment has come to patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib) living in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., as TidalHealth Peninsula Regional is now the first in the area to offer the innovative robotic convergent procedure.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Bethesda Hospital West
Boca Raton, Fla.,
Timothy O’Connor, M.D., director of minimally invasive and robotic spine surgery at the Marcus Neuroscience Institute at Bethesda Hospital West in Boca Raton, Fla., on Feb. 10 performed the first next-generation augmented reality (AR) spinal surgery in the state.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Texas Children's Hospital and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have announced a collaboration dedicated to pediatric cancer care.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Carilion Clinic
Roanoke, Va.
In this conversation, Mindy Estes, M.D., former CEO of Saint Luke’s Health System and former AHA board chair, and Nancy Howell Agee, CEO emeritus of Carilion Clinic and former AHA board chair, discuss the importance of bringing a culture of safety reporting to an organization.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
A new, specialized magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine at the Medical University of South Carolina Health West Ashley Medical Pavillion is bringing the technology to patients who need it. And it’s thanks to a patient who needed it.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Baptist Health UAMS
Little Rock, Ark.
Baptist Health UAMS Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic in Little Rock, Ark., is aiming to help patients struggling with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) get a good night sleep if they are unable to use continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy.
Prevention and Wellness
OHSU Hospital
Portland, Ore.
In this new “Caring for Our Kids” episode, David Wagner, Ph.D., pediatric psychologist at OHSU, discusses the Novel Interventions in Children's Healthcare (NICH) program, and how this innovative approach is transforming care for vulnerable children.
Prevention and Wellness
Doernbecher Children's Hospital
Portland, Ore.
OHSU Doernbecher launched the Nourish program in 2022 to provide parents and caregivers with food during hospital stays.
Prevention and Wellness
Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, Texas
The journey isn’t over after a child beats cancer — at least not at Texas Children’s Hospital.
Prevention and Wellness
Englewood Health
Englewood, N.J.
In this conversation, Vinnidhy Dave, D.O., hospice specialist and director of palliative medicine at Englewood Health Physician Network, and Lauren Savage, director of population health at Englewood Hospital, discuss what Englewood Health is doing to prevent opioid use in its communities.
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Henry Ford Health
Detroit, Mich.
The SOS MATERNITY Network, led by Wayne State University’s Office of Women’s Health, has been launched to address high maternal and infant mortality rates in Michigan.
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Northern Light Health
Brewer, Maine
Northern Light Mercy Hospital’s Cancer Survivorship Clinic helps patients who have finished cancer treatment rebuild their health and enjoy a high quality of life.
Prevention and Wellness
Access to high-quality health care is crucial to a community’s well-being, but it’s not the only component of health.
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Hartford HealthCare
Hartford, Conn.
Since opening its doors in 1824, Hartford HealthCare’s Institute of Living has prioritized providing quality care and “moral treatment” to patients and families. The institute’s team is now introducing the concept of “radical recovery” as it works to reshape behavioral health care.
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University of Vermont Medical
Center Burlington, Vt.
The holiday season can bring incredible joy as well as considerable pressure to spend money — lots of it — on gifts. For some people, holiday gift-giving can cause anxiety and even prompt compulsive behavior.
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Hannibal Regional Hospital
Hannibal, Mo.
In this conversation, Susan Wathen, vice president of human resources at Hannibal Regional Healthcare System, discusses their unique approaches to finding and retaining future health care employees.
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NYC Health + Hospitals
New York, N.Y.
In this conversation, Jeremy Segall, chief wellness officer at NYC Health + Hospitals, discusses the system's various well-being programs, as well as the steps needed to move these programs forward in big organizations.
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Gifford Health Care
Randolph, Vt.
Gifford Health Care is spotlighting team members who live, work and deliver health care in rural Vermont, as part of its “Redefining Rural” video series.
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Dartmouth Health
Lebanon, N.H.
In this conversation, Carolyn Isabelle, director of workforce development at Dartmouth Health, discusses the health system's numerous approaches to recruitment, and the successful strategies that support a healthy and engaged workforce.
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Torrance Memorial
Torrance, Calif.
Understanding the key role that the next generation can play in bridging the workforce shortage gap, Torrance Memorial Medical Center recently hosted more than 180 local high school students to explore different health care career paths.
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UMass Memorial
Worcester, Mass.
UMass Memorial is laser focused in addressing workforce challenges by creating new opportunities for professional growth and career advancement in health care.
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NYC Health + Hospitals / Elmhurst
Elmhurst, N.Y.
The COVID pandemic has been a health care game changer, and its lasting effect on care teams accelerated issues like burnout and the need to address well-being.
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Mass General Brigham
Boston, Mass.
In today's health care field, leaders must address a multitude of complex and intertwined challenges. One of the most important is supporting the well-being of their clinicians.
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Grady Health System
Atlanta, Ga.
Grady Health System’s Yolanda Wimberly, M.D., senior vice president and chief health equity officer, and Felicia Mobley, Ph.D., director of health equity, discuss their new teen experience and leadership program.