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Now in its 12th year, MercyOne’s volunteer birth doula program is not intended to replace a labor partner or a medical provider, but instead serve as a sort-of tour guide for the birthing process.
Saint Peter’s Healthcare’s dual investments in infrastructure and education are improving the lives of both patients and employees.
In mid-March 2024, surgeons from the transplant center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a 62-year old man with end-stage kidney disease.
The University of Kansas Health System has partnered with HURT!, a mobile application people can access afterhours to get free injury assessment from orthopedic specialists.
Banner Health has partnered with the clinical decision software company Regard to integrate algorithms and artificial intelligence to generate clinical decisions, documentation and facilitate clinician-to-clinician communications across its 33 acute care hospitals, which cover patients in six…
A Starbucks Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frappuccino. Games, puzzles, arts and crafts. The blessed relief of a backscratcher. These are among the small things that Penn Medicine patients say makes their long-term inpatient stays more pleasant and endurable.
Old technology — applied in new and novel ways — can still be a lifesaver.
When parents-to-be opt to deliver their baby at a birthing center, it’s often because they want more freedom to choose their birth experience — such as pain management options, comfort techniques, assisted deliveries or just a more homelike setting.
Newton Medical Center’s Alternative Responses to Reduce Instances of Violence and Escalation (ARRIVE) program is a pioneering initiative aimed at reshaping responses to mental health crises, reducing instances of violence and providing more compassionate and effective responses to mental health…
One year after the officially declared end of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., caregivers are patiently restoring the service capacities that the epidemic robbed from their communities.