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Meet Nalu, Tripler Army Medical Center’s “Goodest Boy”

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.
Telling the Hospital Story, Wellness/Preventive Care, Access to Behavioral Health, Service Animals, Innovation/New Models of Care
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Robots, dogs and Legos help kids cope during hospital visits

Robin — an interactive, human-assisted robot — is an innovative tool that’s helping make hospital visits less stressful for pediatric patients at the UMass Memorial Medical Center – Children’s Medical Center.
Telling the Hospital Story, Innovation, Child and Adolescent Health, Care Delivery, Patient-Centered Care, Innovation/New Models of Care, Access to Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Intervention & Issues Prevention
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Mobile health team promotes wellness, addresses substance abuse disorders in rural Maine

MaineHealth Community Health Farmington, which includes MaineHealth Franklin Hospital, offers health and wellness services and education focused on disease prevention to communities in rural Franklin County.
Telling the Hospital Story, Wellness/Preventive Care, Promoting Healthy Communities, Substance Use Disorder, Innovation/New Models of Care, Access to Behavioral Health
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Baby is thriving after innovative procedure to shrivel lemon-sized cyst

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.
Telling the Hospital Story, Innovation, Innovation/New Models of Care, Care Delivery, Child and Adolescent Health
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Baptist Health UAMS Utilizes New Therapy to Treat Obstructive Sleep Apnea

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.
Telling the Hospital Story, Innovation, Innovation/New Models of Care, Leveraging Technology
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Game-changing AR spine surgery performed for the first time in Florida

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.
Telling the Hospital Story, Innovation, Innovation/New Models of Care, Leveraging Technology

Hartford HealthCare Focuses on ‘Radical Recovery’ to Reimagine Behavioral Health Care

Since opening its doors in 1824, Hartford HealthCare’s Institute of Living has prioritized providing quality care and “moral treatment” to patients and families. The institute’s team is now introducing the concept of “radical recovery” as it works to reshape behavioral health care.
Telling the Hospital Story, Wellness/Preventive Care, Behavioral Health Care Delivery, Innovation/New Models of Care, Care Redesign

Mental Health Urgent Care opens in Vermont, addressing critical community health need

To provide a safe alternative to the ED and help people before they experience a mental health crisis, University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, Vt., and several other organizations worked together to open the Mental Health Urgent Care in October 2024. the Mental Health Urgent Care offers mental health services, peer support and help accessing follow-up services to guests
Telling the Hospital Story, Wellness/Preventive Care, Access to Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Care Delivery, Behavioral Health Intervention & Issues Prevention, Innovation/New Models of Care
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Idaho’s First Hospital-at-Home Program Showing Promising Results

The St. Luke’s Hospital at Home program, launched in late 2024, provides hospital-level care to patients in the comfort of their homes.
Telling the Hospital Story, Promoting Healthy Communities, Population/Community Health, Hospital at Home, Community Partnerships, Non-hospital Patient Care
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Mass General team performs second xenotransplant of genetically edited pig kidney

Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston performed its second successful transplant of a genetically edited pig kidney into a living recipient in January 2025.
Telling the Hospital Story, Innovation, Care Delivery, Innovation/New Models of Care, Organ Transplantation