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Timpanogos Regional Hospital adds webs to connect NICU infants to families
Grandparents, siblings and others are always eager to meet new arrivals, so when a baby must spend time in a hospital’s NICU after birth, it’s a tough wait for everyone. Thanks to a series of bedside cameras, however, families at Timpanogos Regional Hospital in Orem, Utah, can connect with the latest addition right away. The…
A Hospital Chaplain & Her Role on the Healthcare Team
(This blog is courtesy of Nashville’s StyleBlueprint.com, an online lifestyle magazine that connects women to their community, and edited for HCA Today.) Catina Parish was the youngest of 13 kids and the first in her family to attend college, on the way to becoming a middle school teacher for the Metro Nashville Public School system.…
Project SEARCH connects special-needs students with hospital careers
Healthcare is an exciting field to work in, but often physical or other limitations can block someone from pursuing a hospital job. Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas recently partnered with the Clark County School District and the Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation’s Project SEARCH High School Transition Program, which provides real-life work experience combined with training…
Medical City Children’s Hospital honored for children’s nutrition program
A proper diet is key to lifelong health, so that’s why Medical City Children’s Hospital in 2010 created Kids Teaching Kids, a program that educates children about healthy snacking and eating habits. Since then, school children from around the Dallas-Fort Worth area have teamed up with the hospital’s registered dietitians to positively change their eating…
Timpanogos Regional Hospital Finds Cinematic Inspiration
After attending the Mountain Division Patient Experience Symposium earlier in 2014, members of the Patient Experience Team at Timpanogos Regional Hospital wanted to engage staff more effectively in improvement efforts. The idea of taking the division-wide effort and shrinking it down to hospital size was floated, and CNO Sandy Ewell said she would back it…
85% of HCA Hospitals Named Top Performers by The Joint Commission
Eighty-five percent of HCA’s hospitals are on The Joint Commission’s (TJC) top performers list, as compared to 36.9 percent of all TJC-accredited hospitals reporting core measure performance data for 2013. Of the 115 HCA hospitals recognized, 48 have been Top Performers all four years of the program’s existence. Below is a quick video from our…