Wellness/Preventive Care
The American Hospital Association (AHA) provides resources for hospitals and health systems to improve wellness for individuals and communities through preventive health care.
The cancer survivorship program at The Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu addresses the many effects that can occur post-cancer by offering comprehensive care and resources.
Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut partners with Get Healthy CT for "Walk & Talk with a Doc," an opportunity on Saturday mornings for community members to walk with YNHH physicians and discuss specific health care topics.
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital in Vermont is offering a new, free Wellness PLUS Program for people at risk for heart and lung disease due to diabetes, high blood pressure, tobacco use, obesity and sedentary lifestyle.
As part of NICU Awareness Month and National Literacy Month, each baby’s family in the FirstHealth NICU was gifted a book and information on the importance of reading.
When pediatric patients at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, are feeling distressed, they can find comfort in Nalu, a two-year-old Labrador retriever and the cuddliest member of the TAMC team.
The departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury today released a request for information on the potential benefits and costs of requiring non-grandfathered health plans to cover over-the-counter preventive items and services without cost sharing and without a prescription.
On Aug. 8, UCLA Santa Monica hosted a lunchtime “fashion show” starring therapy animals, dressed in Taylor Swift-inspired outfits that reflected different periods of Swift’s music.
Sutter Health, based out of Sacramento, Calif., is partnering with Twin Rivers Unified School District, the Neighborhood Wellness Foundation, and the Sacramento Native American Health Center to make mental and physical health resources more accessible for local teens.
Who helps the helpers? At Wake Forest University School of Medicine, special training gave health care workers guidance on how to care for one another.
Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders are the single largest complication of pregnancy and childbirth.