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Lesley Ogden, M.D., CEO of Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital and Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital in Oregon, shares her hospitals’ experience during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
Approximately one-quarter of healthy women with low-risk pregnancies still undergo C-sections despite the potential risks to mothers and babies. To avoid unnecessary C-sections, hospitals are making strides in recognizing risk factors for mothers and babies sooner.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is vital that hospitals and health systems are equipped with personal protective equipment to ensure the safety of their health care workers while providing care for patients.
Statistics show that doula services — which provide help and suggestions on comfort measures such as breathing, relaxation, movement and positioning — are effective in reducing stress and anxiety in expectant mothers, while improving birthing experience and outcomes.
At Dell Seton Medical Center, clinicians observed that patients with opioid use disorder had a high likelihood of readmission because its underlying causes were not being addressed.
AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., hosts short conversations on a range of key issues with hospital and health system leaders from across the country.
COVID-19 has prompted many changes in the way hospitals manage and care for their patients. As hospitals across the nation deal with the ebb and flow of COVID-19 patients and shortages of intensive-care-unit beds, North Carolina’s Atrium Health has found a promising solution to increasing their…
Michigan-based Trinity Health’s Transforming Communities Initiative is a “think big” approach to health care, targeting such underlying problems as youth tobacco use and childhood obesity.
AHA’s Advancing Health podcast channel recently ranked 7th on Feedspot’s Top 55 Healthcare Leadership Podcasts To Follow in 2020.
More than one in four individuals in a recent national survey reported they would wait four months or longer to seek previously skipped medical care due to fear of COVID-19.