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.
Building an age-friendly health system requires more than clinical excellence — it demands leadership, strategy and systemwide commitment.
Born in Idaho Falls at just 22 weeks gestation and weighing only 1 pound 4 ounces, Logan Ames faced overwhelming odds as a micro-preemie. One year later, Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center celebrated his first birthday, celebrating not only Logan’s survival but also the dedication of the doctors…
In this conversation, Anne Seymour of the National Mass Violence Center, and Michael Schmidt, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and immunology at the Medical University of South Carolina, explain how crime victim compensation programs can help survivors of mass violence cover medical bills, mental…
More than two decades after its launch, Ascension Wisconsin’s Blanket of Love program continues to help families thrive by providing expectant parents with access to critical health, education and community resources.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation has launched the Advancing Doulas and Perinatal Teams Toolkit, a new resource designed to help hospitals better integrate doulas into maternal care teams and improve outcomes for mothers and infants.
Nurses are known for going above and beyond for their patients. Boryana Peeva, an ICU nurse at Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center, went 17,500 feet up for one of hers.
When a child is diagnosed with a serious illness, parents are faced with a tsunami of emotions, information, choices — and stress. One researcher at UVA Health Children's has found a way to communicate complicated information to parents: Paint them a picture.
CD19-positive mixed phenotype acute leukemia (MPAL) is one of the rarest forms of blood cancer. It’s also one of the deadliest; the median survival rate is usually months. And there has been no FDA-approved treatment — until now.
A gene therapy called LYFGENIA is transforming the way sickle cell disease is treated in children — but it isn’t easy to administer, and it’s not yet widely available.
Visitors to Utah’s St. George Regional Hospital can now explore a new permanent artifact display on the main floor that showcases over a century of local medical history.