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In April, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics opened a new 30-room short stay unit to help ease overcrowding and streamline the hospital experience for short-term patients requiring observation
Catalina Island Medical Center may be on a small island, but it has an outsized influence when it comes to providing care. As the only hospital serving Avalon, Calif. — home to 4,500 residents — CIMC staff also care for more than one million patients who visit the island annually.
When it comes to caring for sexual assault survivors, health care workers often walk a fine line. They must provide care that is both high quality and compassionate — performing necessary exams and collecting samples in a delicate way that avoids retraumatizing the patient.
Things tend to get competitive on the makeshift nine-hole miniature golf course located at the University of Kentucky’s baseball field – especially on the day of the annual Mini Pro-Am tournament, where patients at UK HealthCare’s Kentucky Children’s Hospital play with assistance from volunteer…
Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys, Calif., is addressing food insecurity in the San Fernando Valley one recipe at a time.
What’s better when you’re feeling scared than a visit from a canine friend? Many hospitals and health systems are embracing trained emotional support dogs to support staff, patients and their families during difficult times.
Treating substance use disorder is complicated, requiring a combination of behavioral and physical health care that differs from substance to substance and person to person. The new Kahlert Institute for Addiction Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine opened June 14 and aims to…
THE PLAYERS Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, a collaboration between Nemours Children’s Health, Jacksonville, and Wolfson’s Children’s hospital, combines state-of-the-art technology with settings that contribute to the wellness of the whole child, no matter their age.
Researchers from Intermountain Health were chosen as part of a national consortium of healthcare systems and hospitals in a new federally-funded initiative that will use advanced technologies to improve treatment for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), pneumonia, and sepsis.