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.
Despite significant and ongoing challenges this year, hospitals and health systems can be proud of the job they do each and every day to care for our families, our friends and our neighbors.
Many babies who are born prematurely spend extra time in the hospital. But what happens when a baby is born more than three months early? In the case of Avah Fernandez, who earned “micro-preemie” status when she was born only 1 pound and 2 ounces at 23 weeks, that meant spending a year hospitalized…
Grady Health System’s Yolanda Wimberly, M.D., senior vice president and chief health equity officer, and Felicia Mobley, Ph.D., director of health equity, discuss their new teen experience and leadership program.
In New Hampshire’s Upper Valley region, the Child Advocacy Center of Grafton and Sullivan counties at the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center aims to combat child abuse and neglect by providing a safe place for children and families when there are concerns about these issues…
In early October, Abrazo Arizona Heart Hospital in Phoenix became the first health center in the state to implant the Watchman FLX Pro, which reduces risk for stroke by blocking off a part of the heart called the left atrial appendage.
Katie Belle Carmichael's exhibit, “Pups of Color,” which opened Oct. 15 on the hospital’s ground floor and was attended by some of the four-footed subjects, features portraits of the hospital’s therapy dogs who visited her room during her stays.
Reading Hospital recently announced that staff will be able to do volunteer work while on the clock through the Community Outreach and Engagement (CORE) program.
From all of us at the American Hospital Association, best wishes for a happy, healthy and safe Thanksgiving.
ROSE — Reach Out, Stay Strong, Essentials for mothers of newborns — is an evidence-based program that has reduced cases of postpartum depression by half among low-income women in a series of randomized control trials.
Peer recovery specialists at Cape Cod Hospital and Falmouth Hospital in Massachusetts help patients overcome substance use disorders.