Jon Asplund

The Malcolm Baldrige Award's systematic improvement approach has helped this West Virginia provider improve its working relationships with everyone from vendors to the medical staff, researchers and the workforce. 

The winner of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in the health care category, Charleston (W.Va.) Area Medical Center is the largest nongovernmental employer in its region, and is an important regional provider of Level I trauma care, neonatal and pediatric intensive care, kidney transplants and a host of other services.

The singing group wins hearts and changes attitudes about 'the clean up crew.'

The Blackwell sisters opened a hospital for women and children before the Catholic Church made its presence known in health care in the United States.

Looking to quicken administration of the drug, hospitals help to get police officers trained in delivery.

Mark Hamill visits children's hospital, hospitals battle hunger in the community and healthy teenagers should visit the doctor alone, in H&HNs weekly roundup of relevant news you might have missed.

After 28 years at the helm, CEO Frank Sacco leaves South Florida-based Memorial Healthcare System well-prepared for the future. Sacco recently spoke with H&HN about growth strategy and building solid board-CEO relationships. 

Here's a look at Boston City Hospital's 1912 Christmas, with "vaulted ceilings and nearly empty rooms," says the New York Academy of Medicine's Center for History website.

Health care news you might have missed from around the Web this week.

The legacy of the world's first artificial heart patient, Barney Clark, who lived for 112 days with a polyurethane and aluminum heart.

 Here’s some news in the nursing space that caught our eyes. Watch for more Nurse Watch every Wednesday in H&HN Daily.

A golden retriever in a hospital, drinking may be good for you, and an Uber approach may change health care, all part of this installment of Weekly Reading.

November has become the hairiest month thanks to the Movember Foundation and the No-Shave November movements, and as we requested, Mercy Health Youngstown in Mahoning Valley, Ohio, has supplied evidence of its fundraising in that arena.

Throwback Thursday: In honor of World AIDS Day, which was Dec. 1, we look back on an image that proved to be a turning point in the way AIDS was perceived in the United States.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Narcan nasal spray for sale to stop or reverse the effects of opioid overdoses, a move that was praised by health care officials.

Washington, D.C., hospitals want to know how big a problem CRE is, while a Texas hospital uses the cloud to rain on hand-washing scofflaws' parade.

We revisit an unconscionable medical study that lasted 40 years, with modern-day lessons from Tuskegee University’s archivist.