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Missouri School of Medicine using mobile simulators to help improve care in rural areas

The Missouri School of Medicine is using mobile simulators — mannequins that breathe, talk and move — to help train nurses in rural areas across the state in preparation for events that would overwhelm their emergency rooms.
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U-M Health C.S. Mott Children's Hospital distributes iPads to improve technology access for patients

University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital patients now have access to one of more than 150 new iPads during their stay.
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Colorful canines bring comfort to cancer care

Katie Belle Carmichael's exhibit, “Pups of Color,” which opened Oct. 15 on the hospital’s ground floor and was attended by some of the four-footed subjects, features portraits of the hospital’s therapy dogs who visited her room during her stays.
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Arizona hospital becomes state’s 1st to implant new device to reduce stroke risk

In early October, Abrazo Arizona Heart Hospital in Phoenix became the first health center in the state to implant the Watchman FLX Pro, which reduces risk for stroke by blocking off a part of the heart called the left atrial appendage.
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Carving out safe spaces for children who are victims of abuse, neglect

In New Hampshire’s Upper Valley region, the Child Advocacy Center of Grafton and Sullivan counties at the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center aims to combat child abuse and neglect by providing a safe place for children and families when there are concerns about these issues in their lives.
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UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital brings music to patients

Many babies who are born prematurely spend extra time in the hospital. But what happens when a baby is born more than three months early? In the case of Avah Fernandez, who earned “micro-preemie” status when she was born only 1 pound and 2 ounces at 23 weeks, that meant spending a year hospitalized, receiving care and support in a variety of ways. 
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The joy of cooking meets the science of nutrition. The result? Optimal health, says one hospital.

The Culinary Medicine program combines “the joy of cooking with the science of nutrition to help patients, employees and the community achieve optimal health.”
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At Hartford HealthCare, a different HAIM offers the sweet sound of new treatments and diagnostic tools

Hartford HealthCare is partnering with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a collaborative focused on holistic artificial intelligence in medicine.
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'I would take all your Wyoming nurses back home with me'

The kindness, thoughtfulness and compassion of the Cheyenne Regional Medical Center ED staff and providers surrounded Cindy Andrew throughout her stay.
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What do you do with an old hospital? In Boulder, you recycle it.

A city ordinance passed in 2020 prohibits massive deconstruction project debris from being hauled away to the dump. Instead, most of the material left from the brick-by-brick demolition of the Boulder Community Health hospital has been recycled and repurposed, keeping 60.8 million pounds out of the landfill.