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Employees Raise a Half Million Dollars to Build Rural Replacement Building
Rural hospital staff raise big bucks to build a new facility for their outdated hospital.
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Hospital Staffs Persevere Through Intense Blizzard
Seven feet of snow paralyzed Boston, but hospital staffs didn't let it stop them from coming in to work.
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Mobile Cart Frees Up Patients With Ventilators
When Hartford Hospital nurses wanted to get ventilator-assisted patients up and walking, the hospital's mechanical assistant created a solution.
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Nurse Helps Kids Cope With Parents' Cancer
A DeKalb Medical Center nurse started a support group for children whose parents have cancer.
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Hospital Staff Solve the Mystery of Jose
With little to go on, employees reconnect a patient and family. ‘It represents everything we do.'
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Underused Community Trail Becomes a Fitness, Health Driver
A health system finds a fun way to boost population health through a local, recreational trail.
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Ohio State Center Gets Health Access to Autistic Adults
Unlike many institutions of its kind, The Ohio Health Care Center helps adults with autism.
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Veterans Get 'Platinum' On-the-Job IT Experience in Rush University Medical Center Program
This program helps veterans jump-start careers in IT with paid training.
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The AHA McKesson Quest for Quality Prize winner
The AHA McKesson Quest for Quality Prize winner
The AHA McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitalwide patient safety efforts
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Helping immigrant mothers have healthy babies
Cristina Ramirez, a community health worker at Mercy Regional Medical Center, helps link pregnant women, many of whom are migrant workers, with doctors and other social services.
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Hospital security guard is a welcoming presence for stressed patients and families
Hospital security guard is a welcoming presence for stressed patients and families
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To Protect Girls and Honor Grace
Home and abroad, NP and his nurse wife aim to keep young and vulnerable from sex traffickers
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Mother and Child Reunion
NICU nurse manager finds a way to connect a seriously ill mom with her newborn son
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CEO on a Mission
Michigan hospital leader's anti-obesity campaign sparks a community phenomenon
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Snow Day? No Way.
Hospital staffers defy 3 feet of white stuff with a little grit, a big work ethic and at least one snowmobile.
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Driven to Improve a Population's Health
Following the 9/11 tragedy, Kyung-Hee Choi left Wall Street and dedicated herself to community service
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The Matriarch of the Unit
These are the moments you want to seize; to be more than just a nurse'
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The Extra Mile: Extending the Food Chain
Toledo hospital used to throw unserved meals away. Now it helps to feed its hungry neighbors.
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The Extra Mile: Dressed with Dignity
With clothes donated by hospital staff, nurse sets up shop for patients in need.
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Let's innovate
New center aims to accelerate information exchange
Interoperability, that holy grail of meaningful use of health information technology, remains a stretch goal for much of the industry. With the grand opening of a new lab, HIMSS hopes to change all of that and actually accelerate interoperabili...
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