As part of the AHA’s Opportunities for Innovations in Rural Maternal Care initiative, a recent Commonwealth Fund blog discusses strategies hospitals can use to sustain maternal care within the communities they serve.
Child and Adolescent Health
The Health Resources and Services Administration Maternal and Child Health Bureau has released the latest data from the National Survey of Children’s Health. The survey provides national and state-level data on children’s physical and mental health, healthcare access and quality, special healthcare…
Valleywise Health has become the first healthcare organization in Arizona to implement a new technology designed to provide a gentler and more secure way to stabilize umbilical lines in premature and critically ill newborns.
In a new blog by Aisha Syeda, senior program manager at AHA, learn how you can participate in the first Better Health for Mothers and Babies Awareness Week, Sept. 28-Oct. 2.
Every mother and baby deserves the opportunity for a healthy start. Hospitals and health systems help make that possible by providing care throughout pregnancy and childhood, delivering lifesaving services and partnering with communities to help families thrive.From Sept. 28 through Oct. 2, the…
A report released Sept. 21 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found improvements in mental health and dietary habits among U.S. high school students.
Each year, about 19 million children in the United States receive treatment for musculoskeletal conditions, including fractures and broken bones, sports and overuse injuries, and congenital and development conditions.
LCMC Health’s Manning Family Children’s Hospital in New Orleans became Louisiana’s first to use curative gene therapy in the treatment of sickle cell disease.
In episode one of Frontiers, a special three-part podcast series from the AHA that examines maternal health in rural America, learn how rural hospital leaders are turning commitment into action and finding new possibilities for sustaining maternal care close to home.
Join the AHA’s Better Health for Mothers and Babies Initiative in observing NICU Awareness Month in September and NICU Awareness Day on Sept. 30.