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.
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.
Things tend to get competitive on the makeshift nine-hole miniature golf course located at the University of Kentucky鈥檚 baseball field 鈥 especially on the day of the annual Mini Pro-Am tournament, where patients at UK HealthCare鈥檚 Kentucky Children鈥檚 Hospital play with assistance from volunteer鈥
Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys, Calif., is addressing food insecurity in the San Fernando Valley one recipe at a time.
What鈥檚 better when you鈥檙e 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鈥
THE PLAYERS Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, a collaboration between Nemours Children鈥檚 Health, Jacksonville, and Wolfson鈥檚 Children鈥檚 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.
The recently dedicated Stacy Goldstein Breast Center within Overlook Medical Center promises to offer world-class breast cancer services to members of the New Jersey community, according to the family whose generous financial support made the new center possible.