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.
Elizabeth Brown, M.D., an OB/GYN at Sanford Health in Dickinson, North Dakota, balances her medical career with her life on a 650-acre ranch in Glendive, Montana.
In this conversation, Scott Nygaard, M.D., chief operating officer at Lee Health, discusses the impact these natural disasters have had on the organization
In this conversation, James Liggins, Jr., senior counsel at Warner Norcross + Judd, and vice chair of the board of directors at Bronson Healthcare, discusses his work developing a tool for board members that allows them to effectively understand and address areas of concern for their organizations.
There are a number of factors that may complicate recovery from open-heart surgery, but for female patients, bra size and fit shouldn鈥檛 be one of them.
In this conversation, Jefferson Health's Cara Martino, DNP, R.N., enterprise vice president of clinical improvement and transformation, and Trish Henwood, M.D., executive vice president and chief clinical officer, discuss the organization's ever-growing patient population.
To help support moms and dads with newborns, Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, R.I., part of Care New England, established The Warm Line. It鈥檚 a toll-free telephone support system staffed by professional nurses.
Coronary artery bypass surgery is a major ordeal 鈥 open-heart surgery lasting three to six hours, a stay in the hospital that could last up to a week, then six to 12 weeks of recovery. For one patient at Doctors Medical Center (DMC) in Modesto, Calif., coronary artery bypass was much simpler鈥
AI clinical documentation tools 鈥 tools that use artificial intelligence to securely summarize medical information from spoken conversations 鈥 are becoming widely recognized as resources that ease clinicians鈥 workloads so they can spend more time with patients.
Residents of Snohomish Country, Wash., now have a new space for comprehensive rehabilitative care 鈥 which, as a result, opens crucial bedspace for non-rehab patients.