Child and Adolescent Health
PeaceHealth St. Joseph in Bellingham, Wash., is supporting its most vulnerable patients by expanding access to donor breast milk for premature and at-risk newborns, ensuring they receive critical nutrition in their first days of life.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation has enrolled 25 doula trainees from 14 counties across the state in its latest class, continuing an effort to strengthen maternal health outcomes, particularly in underserved and rural communities.
Enhanced infection prevention measures in neonatal intensive care units have been shown to significantly reduce the spread of hospital‑acquired viral infections among highly vulnerable infants, according to a study led by Oregon Health & Science University.
University of Iowa Health Care is expanding its support for growing families with a series of major upgrades to maternal and newborn services, including a newly enhanced postpartum unit and a state-of-the-art neonatal intensive care unit.
The AHA and other national health care groups sent a letter to members of the House and Senate appropriations committees, urging them to provide $1.02 billion in fiscal year 2027 funding to support the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education program.
As groups dedicated to protecting and advancing the health of America’s children, we thank you for your longstanding bipartisan support of CHGME, including a $5 million increase in Fiscal Year (FY) 2026. We ask you to provide $1.02 billion in FY 2027 to fund CHGME with the same priority as other…
In this conversation, Alejandro Quiroga, M.D., president and CEO of Children's Mercy Kansas City, and Mary Esselman, president and CEO of Operation Breakthrough, explore how one innovative partnership in Kansas City is bringing true whole-person care directly to the children and families who need…
The AHA asks that as the Senate begins drafting the FY 2027 appropriations bill, it funds health care programs that have proven successful in improving access to quality health care for patients and communities across America.
The AHA asks that as the House begins drafting the FY 2027 appropriations bill, it funds health care programs that have proven successful in improving access to quality health care for patients and communities across America.
University of Utah Health is expanding its TeleNICU program to improve access to specialty newborn care in rural communities across the Mountain West.