Telling the Hospital Story
The AHA is continuing our efforts to spotlight the many ways that hospitals and health systems benefit the patients and communities they serve. See AHA's Telling the Hospital Story landing page for additional stories and an opportunity to share what your hospital or health systems is doing to benefit your community.
Mercy and the School District of Washington have launched a registered youth apprenticeship program to both introduce high school students to healthcare careers and address long-term workforce needs.
UCHealth’s Memorial Hospital Central and Memorial Hospital North in Colorado Springs are the first hospitals in Colorado to use the i-STAT Alinity traumatic brain injury blood test, a new tool that helps emergency physicians quickly determine whether adults may have suffered a mild brain injury,…
Building trust with patients before a crisis can be one of the most powerful tools in preventing violence in healthcare settings.
Trinity Health Michigan’s The Farm has been connecting healthy eating with better health outcomes for community members since its start in 2010.
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.
Saint Francis Hospital has earned national recognition as Oklahoma’s first National Blood Clot Alliance Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Center of Excellence.
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.
Hospital care for people with Parkinson’s disease costs nearly $8 billion annually and places about one in six hospitalized patients at significant risk for an avoidable complication due to healthcare systems that are not designed to meet their unique, time-sensitive needs.
This Costs of Caring report provides a data-driven assessment of the financial realities faced by hospitals and health systems, and underscores why sustainable affordability solutions must address the structural drivers of cost growth rather than focusing narrowly on hospital prices alone.
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).