Telling the Hospital Story: All Hospital Stories

This spring, the Renown Specialty Care Center at Renown Health in Reno, Nev., will open the Conrad Breast Center, a multidisciplinary, one-stop shop for breast health and wellness.

In this conversation, University of Utah Health's Kencee Graves, M.D., hospitalist and palliative medicine physician, and David Colling, vice chair, Community Board of Directors, discuss how a “Quality 101” approach helped bridge knowledge gaps between clinicians and board members, and why making this transformation interactive leads to stronger strategic alignment and better patient outcomes.

The Queen’s Health Systems, based in Honolulu, Hawaii, joined a new collaborative initiative — called Ka Umeke Lama, or “Bowl of Enlightenment” in Hawaiian — that aims to transform cancer care across the islands.

In this conversation, Cleveland Clinic's Eric Boose, M.D., family medicine physician and associate chief medical information officer, and Rohit Chandra, Ph.D., executive vice president and chief digital officer, discuss the Clinic's initial pilot of ambient listening technology, lessons learned from implementation and what's on the horizon for AI in health care.

Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston performed its second successful transplant of a genetically edited pig kidney into a living recipient in January 2025.

At Our Lady of the Lake Ascension, a community hospital in Gonzales, La., that’s part of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System (FMOLHS), a groundbreaking technology is making waves in sepsis detection.

A new treatment has come to patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib) living in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., as TidalHealth Peninsula Regional is now the first in the area to offer the innovative robotic convergent procedure.

Texas Children's Hospital and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have announced a collaboration, uniting the nation's largest comprehensive pediatric system with a leading cancer center, combining their strengths to improve outcomes for pediatric patients.

Timothy O’Connor, M.D., director of minimally invasive and robotic spine surgery at the Marcus Neuroscience Institute at Bethesda Hospital West in Boca Raton, Fla., on Feb. 10 performed the first next-generation augmented reality (AR) spinal surgery in the state.

In this conversation, Mindy Estes, M.D., former CEO of Saint Luke’s Health System and former AHA board chair, and Nancy Howell Agee, CEO emeritus of Carilion Clinic and former AHA board chair, discuss the importance of bringing a culture of safety reporting to an organization, and how technology can’t replace the human factor in a successful patient safety strategy.

A new, specialized magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine at the Medical University of South Carolina Health West Ashley Medical Pavillion is bringing the technology to patients who need it. And it’s thanks to a patient who needed it.

Baptist Health UAMS Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic in Little Rock, Ark., is aiming to help patients struggling with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) get a good night sleep if they are unable to use continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy. The clinic began offering Inspire therapy, a small implant that stimulates the airway muscles.

BeaGL was created by researchers at the University of California Davis and UC Davis Health who were inspired by their own personal experiences with managing T1D. They think of BeaGL as a potential AI-driven health care tool that has unlimited possibilities.

The Duke team performed the world’s first living mitral valve replacement, a type of partial heart transplant, which Duke pioneered in 2022. The transplant is even more remarkable for pediatric patients like Margaret and Kensley.

A team at Yale–New Haven Children’s Hospital in Connecticut performed a minimally invasive procedure on a 3-day-old baby who had been diagnosed with a lymphatic malformation in utero.

Tufts Medical Center’s Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant team performed the hospital’s 800th heart transplant in October 2024, a year before the transplant program marks its 40th anniversary.

Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester in New York are investigating a potential biomarker in the brain that could diagnose psychosis before symptoms appear.

Hearts have a special meaning for Heavenleigh Weilage. For one thing, she was born on Valentine’s Day 2022. For another, she was the first child in the country to receive a pacemaker so small it’s the size of a large pill.

University of California Davis Health has launched a first-in-the-nation program called PATH (Promoting Accessibility To Healthcare) to improve the health care experience for children who have autism and other neurodevelopmental disabilities.

In this conversation, Mindy Estes, M.D., former CEO of Saint Luke's Health System and former AHA board chair, and Tori Bayless, CEO of Luminis Health and AHA board member, discuss how hospital leaders and boards can drive meaningful change, the impact of data-driven decision making, and the importance of mentoring future health care leaders.

Dave Newman, M.D., vice president and chief medical officer for virtual care at Sanford Health, discusses how innovative virtual care models and AI-powered solutions are breaking down barriers, improving patient outcomes and enhancing provider efficiency.

Modern medical technology has led to remarkable advancements, but staff at Loma Linda University Medical Center-Murrieta know that something as basic as a strategically labeled bracelet can help save a life.

In this conversation, Carlos Roberts, M.D., urogynecologist and vice president and chief medical officer of the Women and Children Service Line at WellSpan Health, discusses the organization's commitment to zero harm, its innovative tier structure for daily safety huddles, and its fostered culture of continuous improvement and celebration of patient safety.

A clinical trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City has achieved groundbreaking results in treating rectal cancer using the immunotherapy drug Jemperli.

At the University of Washington Medicine in Seattle, researchers are leveraging machine learning — a subset of artificial intelligence — and synthetic proteins to counteract the damaging effects of a bite.

To ensure kids and families have the best care throughout their lives, UW Health Kids and Children’s Wisconsin have announced a new joint venture called the Forward Pediatric Alliance to expand patient access and elevate the quality of care provided by both organizations.

A complicated, rare and difficult-to-perform heart surgery first pioneered more than 50 years ago is making a comeback, due to improved techniques that yield better results.

At Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, scientists contributed to research that showed how a better understanding of the subtleties of antibody-target interactions can inform vaccine design and therapeutic strategies.

Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I., is leading research studies on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia through its multifaceted Memory and Aging Program (MAP).

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center (CRMC) has launched an innovative emergency department blood kiosk, significantly enhancing patient care by providing immediate access to life-saving blood transfusions.

Twelve years after losing her husband David to lung cancer, Bev Brookshire faced her own health scare. When she began to experience shortness of breath and wheezing, a CT scan at Washington state-based MultiCare revealed a nodule on her lung.

In the last of this four-part conversation, four leaders from Scripps Health — Chris Van Gorder, president and CEO, Todd Walbridge, senior director of corporate and system safety and security, Shane Thielman, corporate senior vice president and chief information officer, and Gerry Soderstrom, corporate senior vice president and chief audit, compliance and risk officer — discuss the future of cyberattacks on America's health care, the real-time threat to patients, and recovery efforts once an attack is over.

In the third of this four-part conversation, three experts from Scripps Health talk through the day the organization experienced a cyberattack, the preparation playbook that leaders rapidly deployed, and what comes first in responding to these types of critical situations.

Twelve years after losing her husband David to lung cancer, Bev Brookshire faced her own health scare. When she began to experience shortness of breath and wheezing, a CT scan at Washington state-based MultiCare revealed a nodule on her lung.

A study from Nemours Children’s Health surveyed 350 pediatric orthopedic trauma patients who, due to the nature of their injuries, were transferred to pediatric hospitals from other local facilities, and found that more than a third of those transfers could have been avoided through the use of telemedicine.

Artificial intelligence has become a valuable part of many areas of health care. A team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is setting out on a two-year project that aims to make AI chatbots more effective — and more empathetic — when part of behavioral health care treatment.

Poppy McGee may not have made it to Thanksgiving. A stroke and brain surgery had already left McGee, 73, in a medically precarious state. Then doctors discovered a severe problem with her aortic valve and a blockage in her coronary artery, which were both contributing to heart failure.

The Center for Hand Surgery at NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst restored the use of Harry Perks' right hand after 10 years of immobility due to spasticity from a drug overdose.

Savannah, a 12-year-old from North Andover, Mass., loves gymnastics, soccer and swimming — activities she is enjoying two years after being diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, and adjusting to living with a prosthetic leg.

In December, OSF Children’s Hospital of Illinois announced surgeons had successfully performed the world’s first implantation of an extravascular implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (EV-ICD) in a 2-year-old child who had suffered a sudden cardiac arrest.

Emergency departments exist to serve everyone in need, but caregivers recognize that frequent and repeated users of the ED tend to share common drivers of heavy utilization. Often, the ED serves as a first stop safety net for vulnerable populations if other social services are inaccessible or confusing to navigate.

To a sick child, few things can feel as intimidating — and alien — as undergoing cancer care. From the medical terminology used by health care workers to the technology used in treatment, many steps in the process can feel especially foreign to kids and adults alike.

Western Washington-based Virginia Mason Franciscan Health and Pacific Northwest-based MultiCare have taken an innovative approach to expanding Level II trauma services in Pierce County. The key? Alternating trauma care between two Tacoma-area hospitals.

Stephens County Hospital in Georgia has been designated as a Remote Treatment Stroke Center by the Georgia Department of Public Health’s Office of EMS and Trauma.

The health care industry does everything possible to mitigate errors, yet mistakes can happen. That's why CommonSpirit Health has worked to adopt an organizational culture of transparency that allows its employees to feel comfortable reporting errors when they occur.

St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, has made a significant advancement in medical technology by performing the state’s first kidney transplant using robotic technology.

In this conversation, Dave Eaker, geriatric program manager at Atrium Health, and Shannon Morton, assistant vice president of patient care services at Atrium Health Cabarrus, discuss the reasons the organization made the jump to join the Initiative, the infrastructure being developed across the system, and the difference it's made for the aging population.

At 10 years old, Kieva has been dancing through life — literally. She is a competitive Irish dancer who reached the Open Championships — the highest level of competition — after just three years of dancing. However, she had a condition that put a stutter in her step.

In this Leadership Dialogue conversation, Amy Perry, president and CEO of Banner Health, discusses how AI and other technologies can relieve caregivers of tedious and time-consuming aspects of their jobs, and help organize critical data for caregivers, patients and research.

Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, has become the first hospital in the United States to use the newly FDA-approved Gore EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis (TAMBE) device to treat this form of aortic aneurysm.

Although artificial intelligence has the potential to improve and transform health care, doctors aren’t likely to leave the decision-making to chatbots anytime soon.

While the doctors, nurses and care teams of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta are focused on helping their youthful patients get better at Arthur M. Blank Hospital, much of the heavy lifting of day-to-day operations is done by a cadre of unpaid workers who never tire and never complain.

In this Leadership Dialogue conversation, Tom Priselac, president and CEO emeritus of Cedars-Sinai, discusses overseeing 30 years of growth and integration at the health system, and the perspectives required to integrate across multiple care areas.

Mark Taylor, M.D., surgical director for surgical operations at Cleveland Clinic, discusses the health system's ongoing IV fluid conservation strategies and the importance of constant and targeted communication during supply chain shortages.

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.

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, and how an innovative platform is keeping employees unified when identifying and implementing patient-focused improvements.

There are a number of factors that may complicate recovery from open-heart surgery, but for female patients, bra size and fit shouldn’t be one of them.

AI clinical documentation tools — tools that use artificial intelligence to securely summarize medical information from spoken conversations — are becoming widely recognized as resources that ease clinicians’ workloads so they can spend more time with patients.

AI clinical documentation tools — tools that use artificial intelligence to securely summarize medical information from spoken conversations — are becoming widely recognized as resources that ease clinicians’ workloads so they can spend more time with patients.

Springfield Memorial Hospital, part of Memorial Health System, has baked safety into its culture. To support and enhance a “Safety First” culture, the system launched a variety of successful programs at all of its hospitals, including Springfield Memorial Hospital.

Physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital, a founding member of Mass General Brigham, have done groundbreaking proton therapy research, studying the best use of this therapy for clinical care.

In this Leadership Dialogue conversation, Steven Diaz, M.D., chief medical officer at MaineGeneral Health and board member at the American Hospital Association, discusses his passion for patient safety, how his organization meets quality care for its community, and how AI could potentially be incorporated into the overall work of patient safety.

The first-time integration of two innovative technologies is providing immediate benefits to Wyoming cardiac patients.

For years, the first-line treatment for atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, has been blood thinners. A-fib, which is a cardiac rhythm abnormality, can lead to other health complications, including strokes — it’s estimated that 90% of all strokes happen in patients who have A-fib.

A triple-whammy of advanced new diagnostic and treatment options holds the promise for better outcomes for New Jersey lung cancer patients.

Mon Health Medical Center in Morgantown, W.Va., recently began its chapter of the nationwide project No One Dies Alone, which uses volunteers to provide comfort and companionship in a patient’s final moments.

Petersburg Medical Center in Petersburg, Alaska, has ushered in a new era of breast cancer detection with the arrival of its advanced 3D mammography machine. This leading-edge technology provides earlier and more accurate diagnosis of abnormalities and aims to alleviate the discomfort often associated with breast exams.

The emergency department team at the Medical University of South Carolina has embraced a solution that has reduced waiting times during certain hours and brought the number of patients who leave before being seen to almost zero.

In this conversation, leaders from the 2024 Quest for Quality winner, WellSpan Health, and finalists Carilion Clinic, Jefferson Health and MUSC Health, discuss their organizations' work in providing safe, patient- and family-centered care, and share how they partner with community organizations to keep quality health care accessible.

In this "Safety Speaks" conversation, Christi Barney, R.N., vice president of quality and patient safety at Emerson Health, discusses their innovative approach to culture building, and how quality and safety trainings for all stakeholders drove buy-in and measurable success across the health system.

When nine-year-old Sydney Engle was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in her right arm, she and her parents had several options to choose from to prevent the cancer from spreading. Faced with the possibility of amputation or taking a bone from her leg to use in her arm, the Engles and their care team at UC Davis Health in Sacramento, Calif. opted for a rare procedure that involved using Sydney’s collarbone to create a new upper arm.

Losing the ability to communicate can be both frustrating and demoralizing, according to Casey Harrell, a 45-year-old man with severely impaired speech due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. “It’s like you are trapped.” ut new research out of UC Davis Health in Sacramento, Calif., has the potential to reshape life for people like Harrell who’ve lost that critical connection point.

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai wanted to know how artificial intelligence systems known as large language models (LLMs) would perform as medical coders. Their study emphasizes the necessity for refinement and validation of these technologies before considering clinical implementation.

Six-year-old Alexander Shell has Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), one of the most severe forms of inherited muscular dystrophies. In April he was among the first patients in the country — and the first in West Virginia — to receive the first dose of ELEVIDYS gene therapy.

A heart transplant takes many hands: A team including surgeons, operating room staff, heart and lung machine specialists, physicians and others must work together to ensure a successful surgery. It’s a careful balance, and one that the Medical University of South Carolina recently pulled off twice in one day.

Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center is offering a new postpartum rehabilitation program specifically targeted to moms who underwent C-sections.

In this new "Safety Speaks" conversation, Michael Privitera, M.D., professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center, discusses ways to ease the cognitive load that many physicians and caregivers face, and how simple steps can be implemented to make it easier to focus on what's most important.

In this new “Safety Speaks” conversation, Harry S. Smith, board chair of Valley Health System and member of the AHA Committee on Governance, discusses how their organization rearranged its governance system to ensure that quality and patient safety standards were being met across the board.

In mid-March 2024, surgeons from the transplant center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a 62-year old man with end-stage kidney disease.

Banner Health has partnered with the clinical decision software company Regard to integrate algorithms and artificial intelligence to generate clinical decisions, documentation and facilitate clinician-to-clinician communications across its 33 acute care hospitals, which cover patients in six states.

Old technology — applied in new and novel ways — can still be a lifesaver. It was for 34-year-old David “Davey” Bauer, a Missouri native whose heavy smoking and vaping drove his lungs to the point of total collapse, with a double-lung transplant the only alternative left.

In the second of this two-part conversation, John Riggi, national advisor for cybersecurity and risk at the AHA, and Chris Van Gorder, president & CEO of Scripps Health, explore the underdiscussed aspects in the aftermath of a cyber-attack, and the need for cybersecurity standards and protection from the federal government.

In part one of this two-part conversation, Chris Van Gorder, president and CEO of Scripps Health, joins John Riggi, national advisor for cybersecurity and risk at the AHA, to talk about how his organization responded when cybercriminals attacked and breached the defenses of the well-prepared health system.

When parents-to-be opt to deliver their baby at a birthing center, it’s often because they want more freedom to choose their birth experience — such as pain management options, comfort techniques, assisted deliveries or just a more homelike setting. After talking to over 7,000 women who delivered babies at Norton Women’s and Children’s Hospital, the hospital decided to give them what they want, but with the safety net of hospital facilities.

Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey’s largest health network, is the nation’s first health system to receive a voluntary certification for sustainability from The Joint Commission.

Copley Hospital and its two orthopedic clinics, located in the Vermont towns of Morrisville and Waterbury, have highly trained and experienced orthopedic and sports medicine teams to meet the health needs of the residents and visitors who enjoy the four seasons of activities on offerin these communities.

In a pioneering study, researchers from Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital and the Texas A&M University School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) uncovered extreme genetic similarities between brain tumors in humans and dogs.

MU Health Care is just the second hospital in the U.S. to perform lung scans using xenon MRI, a groundbreaking technology that promises to greatly improve providers’ abilities to evaluate lung diseases like cystic fibrosis, asthma, COPD and cancer.

Recent research findings, authored in part by UW Medicine, showed that during western Washington’s 2022 mpox outbreak, emergency response teams were highly accurate at identifying suspected mpox and providing same-day care.

Clinical research investigates new ways to prevent, detect and treat illness, and its courageous patient participants play a foundational role in that process. Drew Bouton, from Olympia, Wash., is one of those patients.

Patients in western Maryland who have aortic valve disease now have a less-invasive treatment option available at UPMC Western Maryland. The facility in Cumberland, Md., performed its first transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in March 2024.

In this second of a two-part conversation, hosted by the AHA's National Advisor for Cybersecurity and Risk John Riggi, Providence’s Adam Zoller, chief information security officer, and Katie Adams, cybersecurity director of clinical technology services, discuss the potential cyberthreats posed by third-party medical devices, and strategies to keep third-parties open and transparent with organizations.

In this first of a two-part conversation, hosted by the AHA's National Advisor for Cybersecurity and Risk John Riggi, Providence’s Adam Zoller, chief information security officer, and Katie Adams, cybersecurity director of clinical technology services, discuss the potential cyberthreats posed by third parties, and prevention strategies to keep organizations secure and alert.

In a time when there are mobile app chatbots for nearly everything, one Washington state hospital is wielding this technology to address one of the most damaging behaviors to our health – cigarette smoking.

Landmark’s Maternity Care and Newburn Nursery Precious Beginnings specializes in offering a single room maternity experience, where all aspects of the birth process occur in one room with a consistent team of care providers.

The Critical Care and Trauma Simulation Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center is one of the most technologically advanced training centers in the region. There, doctors, nurses and other medical professionals train on mannequins that breathe, whose eyes respond to light, and who even bleed when an IV is placed.

The U.S. has more than 6 million people living with heart failure, and many of them are hospitalized with symptoms such as excess fluid retention, which can result in shortness of breath. Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is trying something new which can help patients and reduce hospitalizations.

For some kids, few things are as nerve-racking as an upcoming hospital visit. The blank white walls, labyrinthian hallways and conversations with unfamiliar grownups can feel intimidating and uncomfortable. But Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital in California seeks to soothe these young patients with a little bit of imagination known as Loma Land.

Esther Whitley had a mitral valve leak, meaning blood was flowing in the wrong direction. There was also another, more serious complication: A tumor was present on her heart, which would usually require open-heart surgery to remove. That procedure would carry risk for any patient, but at age 86, it was an impossibility for Whitley. There simply wasn’t a way to treat her safely – until there was.

When it comes to childbirth, a critical component of a positive and empowering experience is communication, and something as simple as a whiteboard can make a major difference. That’s why two Washington state-based hospitals in the Providence health care system kicked off TeamBirth, a communication-focused initiative to enhance the birthing experience and improve outcomes for patients and their babies.

A terrific new care site option is now available for Phoenix-area babies born with nearly any kind of medical condition. The Abrazo Arrowhead Campus in suburban Glendale cut the ribbon in late 2023 for a $14 million expansion of its neonatal intensive care unit.

St. John’s Hospital Camarillo of Camarillo, Calif., recently became the first hospital in southern California and the second in the state to pioneer use a groundbreaking new treatment for AFib that is as effective as it is minimally invasive.

Michigan Medicine and Henry Ford Health are partnering to launch the largest-ever clinical trial to determine if administering the marijuana-derived compound known as cannabidiol (CBD) before and after surgery may reduce the need for opioids following a total knee arthroplasty.

Anyone who’s had to guide a child through any medical procedure knows it can be difficult. At WVU Medicine Children’s, though, a new diagnostic tool is making ultrasounds a little easier for patients and their caregivers.

A research hospital in California is at the forefront of an international effort to prevent pregnancy nausea and vomiting, commonly known as “morning sickness.”

Investigators at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have found a new method for predicting csrdiac arrest through a new method for analyzing the results of electrocardiogram tests, thus adding a new dimension to a cardiovascular diagnostic that’s widely available, already sitting in clinics across the country.

There are two new members of the team at Carilion Giles Community Hospital in Pearisburg, Va.: robots named Moxi, designed and created by Diligent Robotics to assist hospital staff. They’re specialists in supporting frontline staff by taking away some of the time-consuming elements of the job.

Connecticut’s Bridgeport Hospital, part of Yale New Haven Health, is treating stroke patients using the most advanced biplane neuro-angiography imaging system.

On May 10, 2023, Baby Mia Skaats eceived a new heart in a “domino” transplant procedure at New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, the first one performed in babies. A domino transplant surgery occurs when one person is both a donor for a transplant and a recipient of another organ.

Hartford HealthCare is partnering with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a collaborative focused on holistic artificial intelligence in medicine. 

What happens when a baby is born more than three months early? In the case of Avah Hernandez, who earned “micro-preemie” status when she was born only 1 pound and 2 ounces at 23 weeks, that meant spending a year hospitalized at UCSF Benioff Oakland, Calif., receiving care and support in a variety of ways. 

In August, two cardiologists with Albuquerque’s Heart Hospital of New Mexico at Lovelace Medical Center performed the state’s first PASCAL Precision implant procedure for patients with mitral regurgitation, resulting in more precise positioning and less damage to the patient’s mitral value by avoiding invasive surgery.

This summer UC Davis Health in Sacramento expanded the services of their UC Davis Transplant Center to include liver transplants — making it the third solid organ transplant program to launch at the hospital.

As the nursing profession continues to evolve, it is embracing new technologies and practices that allow nurses to focus on what matters most — their patients.

Time and the odds were heavily stacked against Havana, born with a potentially fatal heart valve deformity that made corrective surgery to her tiny newborn’s body a risk that doctors at the Children's Hospital Colorado Heart Institute were reluctant to take.

In late September, students from Park City High School’s Center for Advanced Professional Studies participated in a high-tech robotic operating room experience at Intermountain Park City Hospital to get an up-close look and hands-on experience with robot-assisted surgery.

Artificial intelligence has come to the forefront of emergency visits at LMH Health in Kansas, where a new program is being used to supplement the initial assessment of a patient’s illness or injury after they’re examined by a human triage nurse.

Daniel Eagle chose to partner with the oncology care team at Loma Linda University Medical Center–Murrieta in California when he was told he had early-stage prostate cancer.

Abington Hospital, a member of Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health, has piloted a program that pairs bedside nurses with a “virtual nurse” who assists with these routine administrative tasks, including discharge and answering patients’ questions.

A new pulmonary valve used on patients at Michigan-and-Illinois-based OSF HealthCare doesn't require open-heart surgery to implant it, and patients are able to walk again a few hours after the procedure.

This summer, Cheyenne Regional Medical Center became the first and so far only medical facility in Wyoming to offer the Siemens Biograph Vision™, a next generation positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scanner that yields medical images with greater accuracy and efficiency and with less radiation exposure than older scanners.

To ease patients’ transition from hospital to home and address bed capacity issues, Mass General Brigham has created a discharge lounge. The lounge serves about 125 patients who are waiting for their transportation, making this transition “seamless and stress-free.”

Providence St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Mont., has for the first time earned The Joint Commission's Comprehensive Cardiac Center Certification, effective through June 2025, for its provision of comprehensive cardiovascular care, treatment and services.

For patients at Northwell Health, oncologists have recently begun using iNav — an artificial intelligence-enabled diagnostic tool developed in-house — to spot the signs of pancreatic cancer and flag it for treatment much earlier in the process.

Oncology care grows ever more precise with the help of Intermountain Precision Genomics, a part of Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health system. Working with a partner, Intermountain will begin providing oncology test results that allow access to the ComboMATCH trials.

The University of Vermont Cancer Center leads several innovative programs including basic research in cancer stem cells and cancer prevention, early detection and survivorship.

At the heart of medicine is teamwork, and few procedures exemplify that value quite like a multi-organ transplant. It requires coordination from a long list of health care professionals, including staff who ensure the donated organs are identified, safely procured, and ready for operating – all well before any incisions are made.

Children’s Mercy Kansas City has launched a first-of-its-kind hospital operations center that uses artificial intelligence, predictive analytics and real-time information to optimize care progression and coordination.

The new Kahlert Institute for Addiction Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine opened June 14 and aims to be at the forefront of addiction research and treatment.

Patients ranging from teens to toddlers now have an innovative place to fight their battles against cancers and blood disorders in THE PLAYERS Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, a collaboration between Nemours Children’s Health, Jacksonville, and Wolfson’s Children’s hospital.

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.

For fitness enthusiasts in the greater Scottsdale, Ariz. area, the person jogging on the treadmill next to them just might be turn out to be a famous professional athlete, such as a member of the Arizona Diamondbacks or the NFL’s Cardinals.

Since 2009, Allegheny General Hospital has permitted potential future medical students to observe live open heart surgeries performed by its surgeons and their teams. They watch through a nearby observation deck, but are not actually in the operating room and do not distract the physicians or their patients.

“NYUTron,” a new artificial intelligence program now in use by New York University doctors and hospital executives, can not only read and accurately understand doctors’ notes, it can use them to predict whether a newly discharged patient will soon fall sick enough to be readmitted.

At MultiCare Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Wash., a four-foot-tall robot named Moxi moves around the hospital on its own to run errands like taking samples to labs, getting equipment, and delivering medication to providers.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder of the motor neurons that connect brains to the muscle. ALS has traditionally been very hard to treat. But the picture is getting a little brighter with the advent of a new drug called Qalsody that is now in experimental trials at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia.

When Eloise McCloskey turned 11, she got the best birthday present she and her family could have asked for: a phone call from Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, telling her a donor heart had been identified for her.

Two hospitals in California’s San Luis Obispo County are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to detect strokes, using an app called Viz.ai to read patients’ CT scan results to identify symptoms within minutes.

Jefferson Health recently subscribed to the Nurse Emeritus Program across all 18 of its hospitals throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The national program allows retired nurses to stay engaged on their own terms, working less than full time, at the bedside or in the department, with lots of freedom in terms of where they work.

Atlantic Health System recently became the first in New Jersey to use Micro Transponder®, Inc.’s Vivistim® Paired VNS™ System, an FDA-approved, breakthrough technology for stroke survivors experiencing ongoing hand and arm impairment.

Cody Regional Health is one of the few hospitals in Wyoming to offer Tyrer-Cuzick Scoring, a new type of breast cancer risk scoring, and staff hope to eventually integrate automated breast density assessment, artificial intelligence and deep machine learning techniques into the program.

At Eisenhower Hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif., medical trainees are using simulator mannequins that can imitate a wide range of human behavior. The mannequins are part of Eisenhower’s new high-tech simulation laboratory, the John Stauffer Center for Innovation in Learning.

University Hospital,New Jersey’s academic medical center and the principal teaching hospital for Rutger’s New Jersey Medical School, offers advanced prostate cancer treatment promising shorter recovery times.

In 2024, Michigan Medicine will begin delivering prescriptions to thousands of patients through a new drone delivery service . The hospital will provide the deliveries through a partnership with Zipline, a commercial drone delivery company.

Clinicians and data science teams at Northwell Health in Lake Success, New York, are using artificial intelligence to close health equity gaps. For example, using AI tools, the health system is working to better forecast expectant mothers who could benefit from early intervention and specialized care to ensure safe childbirth — helping improve maternal health care for Black women.

Banner Health is leading the fight against Alzheimer’s disease, bringing together top physicians and scientists to find better ways to prevent, delay and treat the disease, which some experts call one of the most important health care challenges in America. Based in Phoenix, Arizona, a popular retirement destination, the health system is seeing a rapidly growing rate of people with Alzheimer’s disease, which has been linked to COVID-19.

When it became clear that farmers in rural Wisconsin were struggling with mental health issues, Marshfield Clinic Health System began a program to train members of its community — bankers, insurance agents and others — in spotting symptoms of depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts. They are now the front line of defense in a community that may find it difficult to seek help.

An innovative yet simple approach to improving perinatal care, called TeamBirth, was piloted by four U.S. hospitals including Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This teamwork and communication initiative is empowering laboring moms and supporting clinical care teams, while reducing the number of unnecessary cesarean deliveries and increasing patient satisfaction scores. TeamBirth now has been adopted by all Tulsa delivery hospitals and is being implemented across the country

Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City is one of the first to use a break-through test to detect early signs of cancer. With a simple blood draw, the test can scan for more than 50 types of cancer, including those not commonly screened for today.

Researchers with the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Pediatric Cancer Genome Project investigate childhood cancers and incorporate findings into clinical trials at the hospital and internationally. The goal is to improve cure rates and long-term outcomes for several types of childhood cancers.

Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans is using predictive analytics to improve patient safety, care delivery and health outcomes. For example, the health system applies machine learning to reduce health care-acquired Clostridioides difficile infections.

HCA Florida Healthcare uses lifesaving ECMO therapy on COVID-19 patient

Intermountain Healthcare is using precision genomics to personalize care and treatment for diseases like cancer, determine an individual’s risk for certain genetic conditions and identify how well an individual will respond to specific medications and dosage. The overall goal is to provide a better patient experience while helping to reduce costs.

OSF HealthCare, based in Peoria, Illinois, launched OSF Innovation to “embrace change and take on the largest health care challenges.” The team assessed what was needed to improve health outcomes and safety, increase access to care and make care more affordable.

The mission of the Technology & Innovation Development Office (TIDO) is to maximize the impact of Boston Children’s innovations on patient health while enhancing the research endeavor. The work translates the laboratory and clinical research excellence of Boston Children's Hospital into products for the public benefit. TIDO uses a multi-faceted approach to promote, support and develop research, technology and clinical innovations through the protection and licensing of intellectual property, investing in Boston Children's technologies, and establishing strong research and development partnerships with industry throughout the innovation-to-product life cycle.

The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator supports the growth and development of early-stage companies that are developing health care solutions to transform health care quality, efficiency and care delivery. Forty-seven companies from around the world have participated in the three-month program that offers mentorship and the ability to collaborate with clinicians, researchers and other Cedars-Sinai experts. The program is designed to improve care delivery by helping entrepreneurs bring their innovative technology products to market. The program is three months long and in addition to funding, offers mentorship from more than 300 leading clinicians and executives, access to Cedars-Sinai and exposure to a broad network of entrepreneurs and investors.

The Mercy Health Research & Innovation group operates as a research and innovation hub for the health system and is integral to organization’s mission to improve the health of communities, provide patients with the opportunity to participate in cutting edge research and support and grow clinical research and innovation with the priority to drive improvements in standard of care for patients.

The Montefiore Einstein Center for Innovation in Simulation was established by Montefiore and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The innovation center features state-of-the-art simulation technologies and is equipped for medical education and research, combining nursing schools and physician care to foster an environment that focuses on training procedures for health care professionals at all stages of their careers.

The MedStar Telehealth Innovation Center was established with the goal of supporting and coordinating telehealth services. It is housed within the MedStar Institute for Innovation (MI2), and is a system-wide resource that provides telehealth infrastructure, best practices, subject matter expertise, project implementation, and programmatic operational support. Even more important now during the pandemic, key areas that MTIC supports include the MedStar eVisit urgent care on demand platform, video visits, ED teletriage, and more.