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.
Child and Adolescent Health
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.
A new infographic that is a part of the AHA’s Better Health for Mothers and Babies Initiative examines the many factors influencing child and adolescent health.
Beacon Health System’s Benefiting Area Babies Equally (B.A.B.E.) program is helping families build healthy foundations for their children by turning positive parenting actions into tangible rewards.
What began as a holiday trip to visit grandparents on a church mission in Uruguay turned into a life-threatening medical emergency for 3-year-old Estelle Santiago of Midway, Utah.
Improving child and adolescent health in the U.S. is a priority for the AHA and our member hospitals and health systems. Hospitals are recognizing the many factors influencing a child’s well-being and driving solutions to improve outcomes for all.
Children’s Hospital Colorado helped the National Alliance of Sickle Cell Centers develop new national standards to improve how developmental and cognitive challenges are identified and managed in people with sickle cell disease (SCD).
Gabriela Jimenez Thompson, program lead of Our Story Begins at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, and Liliana Escobar, R.N., NICU head nurse at Bellevue Hospital Center, share how the Our Story Begins program uses books, reading, language and nurse education to strengthen NICU parent engagement,…
A 16-year-old Kansas patient is looking toward a future with fewer health limitations after receiving a heart transplant at Children’s Mercy Kansas City.
The University of New Mexico Hospital has completed a major expansion and modernization of its Children’s Psychiatric Center in Albuquerque.