Promoting Healthy Communities
To help mothers in need of food following childbirth, SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital in Madison, Wisc., is providing baskets of groceries to those who need it as part of a new program.
A new depression and anxiety clinic has been opened by Children's Mercy Kansas City as the first of 14 mental health projects the hospital is launching during the next five years
By serving as 鈥渒idney transplant patient 10,001,鈥 Dale Sorensen becomes the face of M Health Fairview鈥檚 major milestone.
In early August, NYC Health + Hospitals led a training exercise testing the health care system鈥檚 ability to identify and isolate 鈥減atients鈥 with simulated Marburg virus symptoms
The Missouri School of Medicine is using mobile simulators 鈥 mannequins that breathe, talk and move 鈥 to help train nurses in rural areas across the state in preparation for events that would overwhelm their emergency rooms.
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. 鈥 home to 4,500 residents 鈥 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 鈥 performing necessary exams and collecting samples in a delicate way that avoids retraumatizing the patient.
Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys, Calif., is addressing food insecurity in the San Fernando Valley one recipe at a time.
For fitness enthusiasts in the greater Scottsdale, Ariz. area, the person jogging on the treadmill next to them just might be turn out to be a famous professional athlete, such as a member of the Arizona Diamondbacks or the NFL鈥檚 Cardinals.
AHA comments on the proposals to increase transparency in provider payment rates, expand stakeholder and beneficiary engagement, and improve access to home and community-based services.