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.
UK HealthCare has created a unique partnership with Bluegrass Community & Technical College (BCTC) and school districts in the state to support students interested in a health care career and increase interest in the health care field.
Big city and rural hospitals partner to address critical community health needs. The goal of the partnership is to improve access to care and keep specialty resources close to home.
Like many hospitals across the country, Cheyenne Regional Medical Center in Laramie County, Wyoming, was seeing the effects of the nationwide opioid crisis 鈥 and had to change its approach after the COVID-19 pandemic made the situation worse.
OSF HealthCare, based in Peoria, Illinois, launched OSF Innovation to 鈥渆mbrace change and take on the largest health care challenges.鈥 The team assessed what was needed to improve health outcomes and safety, increase access to care and make care more affordable.
Community Memorial Health System located in Ventura, California, partnered with Channel Islands University to create a caregiver navigator program.
Samaritan Health Services collaborates with local organizations to serve people who need health care, regardless of their circumstances, and to keep them healthy once they leave the hospital.
The team at Luminis Health is breaking down barriers to good health for all people and providing easy-to-use tools that make it possible to lead a healthy lifestyle.
An innovative partnership between the MetroHealth System and Urban Community School (UCS) was behind a new health center built in Cleveland鈥檚 near West Side neighborhood.
At AdventHealth Hendersonville in North Carolina, teams work together across the health system and with community partners to meet the care needs of patients and families during every stage of life and health.
At St. John鈥檚 Riverside Hospital, two-thirds of the patient population is over the age of 65. The leadership team at the hospital in Yonkers, New York, has made providing age-friendly care a priority. They know that providing care that is age friendly helps older adults enjoy a better quality of鈥