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Hospitals Leading the Way to a Healthier America
Hospitals have always been at the heart of community health empowering healthier, happier lives for all.
AHA Launches New Multimedia Advertising Campaign to Promote Hospitals
The campaign includes a commercial that will run on national, cable, and digital TV and digital advertising.
New Resources Spotlight Crucial Role of Rural Hospitals and Health Systems
The AHA released new resources to help rural hospitals and health systems share their stories and highlight the vital role they play in their communities.
Creative repurposing saves heart during double-lung transplant
Old technology — applied in new and novel ways — can still be a lifesaver.
All Stories
Building Healthy Communities
Kaiser Permanente Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii
This holiday season, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii is strengthening food security across the Aloha State by supporting nonprofits that expand access to nutritious, locally grown food.
Building Healthy Communities
AdventHealth Littleton
Littleton, Colo.
Lisa Hackett, an occupational therapist at AdventHealth Littleton, understands the profound impact of concussions through personal experience.
Building Healthy Communities
Sharon Hospital
Sharon, Conn.
The Senior Behavioral Health Unit at Sharon Hospital, which serves rural northwestern Connecticut, provides short-term inpatient psychiatric care for adults age 55 or older.
Ensuring Access to Care
John Muir Health
Walnut Creek, Calif.
Mental health is a top community health need nationwide. In this conversation, John Muir Health's Jesse Tamplen, vice president of care coordination, and Jamie Elmasu, director of community health improvement, explain how community health assessments (CHAs), data-driven planning and nonprofit partnerships, are expanding access to patients who need it most.
Ensuring Access to Care
M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center
Minneapolis
As pharmacy closures accelerate nationwide, M Health Fairview is proving what’s possible when a health system steps up.
Ensuring Access to Care
Tufts Medicine
Boston, Mass.
The Tufts Medicine Center for Health Literacy Research + Practice works to reduce health literacy barriers for patients, families, clinicians and health care organizations.
Benefiting Communities
Morristown Medical Center
Morristown, N.J.
In late November, a man stood outside the Morristown Medical Center holding a handwritten sign that said, "Thank you all in emergency for saving my wife's life. I love you all."
Benefiting Communities
NewYork-Presbyterian
New York, N.Y.
NewYork-Presbyterian announced the launch of its Hospital-at-Home program in November, designed to provide hospital-level care to eligible patients in the comfort of their homes.
Benefiting Communities
Providence St. Patrick Hospital
Missoula, Mont.
Providence, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health systems, has partnered with Missoula’s Providence St. Patrick Hospital and the University of Montana to launch RESOLVE, a groundbreaking rural health collaborative.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Seattle, Wash.
Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle are testing a simple idea with surprisingly big potential: a special type of foam that makes gene therapy more efficient.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
Ochsner Heath
Louisiana
Ochsner Health is the first health care provider in Louisiana to offer artificial intelligence (AI)-powered technology to support treatment for atrial fibrillation (AFib), a condition affecting more than 6.1 million Americans.
Innovation, Research, and Quality Improvement
Larry Pierce, director of cybersecurity and information security officer for Atlantic Health, unpacks how the growth of AI is reshaping cyber risk in health care, and why physical security is now inseparable from cybersecurity for America's hospitals and health systems.
Prevention and Wellness
In this conversation, Beacon Health System's Kimberly Green Reeves, vice president of community impact and partnerships, and Cassy White, director of community impact, share how data, care coordination and community involvement are helping reduce infant mortality in Michigan and Indiana.
Prevention and Wellness
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, Ark.
Nurses from the Arkansas Center for Women & Infants’ Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have launched an outreach initiative to support postpartum mothers.
Prevention and Wellness
Care New England Health System
Providence, R.I.
As people age, bone mass starts to decline — for some, beginning as early as their 30s — and can be exacerbated by medical conditions, medications or lifestyle choices. Weak bones can lead to osteopenia and osteoporosis, which is called a “silent” disease because a person typically does not have symptoms and may not know they have the disease until a bone breaks.
Workforce
Decatur Memorial Hospital
Decatur, Ill.
Decatur Memorial Hospital (DMH) is celebrating a major milestone as its Nurse Anesthesia Program reaches 60 years of educating skilled professionals for Central Illinois and beyond.
Workforce
Loma Linda University Children’s Health
Loma Linda, Calif.,
For Heather Kono, a pediatric oncology nurse at Loma Linda University Children’s Health in California, her journey with the hospital began long before she put on scrubs.
Workforce
Unity Medical Center
Grafton, N.D.
What was once going to be empty space is now used for everything from staff meetings to community medical events, but its main purpose is serving as the Rural Medical Education Center, supporting Unity's commitment to health care education at all levels.
Benefiting Communities
The constant strain of workforce and financial issues are proving difficult to solve for rural health care providers. In this conversation, Barbara Sowada, president of the Board of Trustees at Memorial Hospital, discusses the role board members can play in helping their hospitals and health systems navigate today’s pressing problems, and how the AHA’s resources and educational materials can provide valuable assistance.
Benefiting Communities
ChristianaCare
Wilmington, Del.
Lehigh Valley Health Network
Allentown, Pa.
Two Southeastern Pennsylvania health systems, ChristianaCare and Lehigh Valley Health Network, are launching a new era of health care with their opening of “micro-hospitals” that provide 24/7 emergency care with limited inpatient beds.
Benefiting Communities
O.D. Wyatt High School in Fort Worth, Texas, in January 2024 opened an on-campus grocery store, housed in a portable building and brimming with fresh produce, meat and nonperishable items for students and their families.
Benefiting Communities
Wisconsin children and families in need of immediate mental health care can now walk in to a brand-new clinic in Kenosha, thanks to a $3 million donation from the charitable wing of the department store retail chain Kohl’s.
Benefiting Communities
Penn State Health employees, College of Medicine faculty, staff and students show their support for organ donation on National Donate Life Blue & Green Day Friday by wearing blue and green.
Benefiting Communities
Mayo Clinic’s Gaming and Esports Medicine Clinic focuses on medical issues that impact professional and hobbyist video gamers, which largely come from repetition and overuse.
Benefiting Communities
Seniors living in the Sioux Falls, S.D., area will soon have access to a first-of-its-kind community for older adults, following a significant investment by Sanford Health.
Benefiting Communities
The loss of a baby during pregnancy or delivery or within the first months after birth is its own kind of grief. Through its Community Wellness Program, Penn Medicine Princeton Health offers a space and opportunity for families to come together in a moving and dignified ceremony to share their sorrow.
Benefiting Communities
Patients over a vast swatch of western states who need level II trauma center services have a great new option that will significantly reduce the need to transfer to another facility.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
University of Washington Medicine
Seattle, Wa.
At the University of Washington Medicine in Seattle, researchers are leveraging machine learning — a subset of artificial intelligence — and synthetic proteins to counteract the damaging effects of a snake bite.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Congenital heart disease is the most common type of birth defect, affecting nearly one in 100 births each year. Thanks to medical and surgical advances in recent years, more people born with heart defects are living longer, healthier lives.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Temple University Hospital
Philadelphia, Pa.
A complicated, rare and difficult-to-perform heart surgery first pioneered more than 50 years ago is making a comeback, due to improved techniques that yield better results.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Monadnock Community Hospital’s Mobile Integrated Healthcare (MIH) program is closing care gaps in the rural community of Peterborough, N.H., and the eastern Monadnock region.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center
Cheyenne, Wyo.
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center (CRMC) has launched an innovative emergency department blood kiosk, significantly enhancing patient care by providing immediate access to life-saving blood transfusions.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Butler Hospital
Providence, R.I.
Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I., is leading research studies on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia through its multifaceted Memory and Aging Program (MAP)
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
In late 2024, Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford, Conn., treated its first patient with pulsed-field ablation (PFA), a new technology that delivers pulsed electric fields to tissue to manage AFib.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Seattle, Wa.
At Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, scientists contributed to research that showed how a better understanding of the subtleties of antibody-target interactions can inform vaccine design and therapeutic strategies.
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham, Wash., is aiming to catch cancer earlier through their use of Intuitive Ion™ Robotic Bronchoscopy technology.
Prevention and Wellness
Sheppard Pratt
Baltimore, Md.
In this conversation, Jason Melegari, R.N., director of clinical services at Sheppard Pratt, discusses how the organization's mobile behavioral health initiative was road tested, and the positive difference it is making for accessibility.
Prevention and Wellness
Children’s Specialized Hospital
New Brunswick, N.J.
Children’s Specialized Hospital, a RWJBarnabas health facility with locations in New Jersey, has opened a new Autism Center of Excellence to help patients and their families navigate the treatment process.
Prevention and Wellness
Rutland Regional Medical Center
Rutland, Vt.
Rutland (Vt.) Regional Medical Center, in partnership with My Healthy Vermont, offers self-management programs that provide participants with the skills and tools needed to effectively manage their medical condition.
Prevention and Wellness
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle offers more than just high-quality care to their cancer patients. The hospital also provides access to Cook For Your Life, a web-based nutrition and recipe resource dedicated to advancing research on diet, cancer prevention and survivorship.
Prevention and Wellness
MaineHealth
Portland, Maine
Launched nearly 20 years ago by MaineHealth and several community partners, Let’s Go! is a community engagement initiative designed to increase healthy eating and active living and decrease obesity.
Prevention and Wellness
Northern Light Acadia Hospital
Bangor, Maine
Northern Light Acadia Hospital in Bangor, Maine, is addressing children’s mental health needs by providing psychological first aid training (PFA) to community partners including local school employees, camp counselors and hospital teams.
Prevention and Wellness
Dartmouth Health
Lebanon, N.H.
In this conversation, Joanne M. Conroy, M.D., CEO & president of Dartmouth Health and 2024 AHA board chair, speaks with her colleague Robert E. Brady, Ph.D., director of Anxiety Disorders Service at Dartmouth Health, about different types of anxieties and their prevalence in today’s culture.
Prevention and Wellness
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, N.Y.
In this new "Safety Speaks" conversation, Michael Privitera, M.D., professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center, discusses ways to ease the cognitive load that many physicians and caregivers face, and how simple steps can be implemented to make it easier to focus on what's most important.
Prevention and Wellness
Atlantic Health System
Morristown, N.J.
Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health System will soon deploy an AI-based technology that flags polypharmacy issues.