'Elder's House' in Anchorage, Alaska, gives home, support to seniors

Many people who come to live in Alaska value their independence and have adventuresome spirits, but for a variety of reasons, some find themselves without a home.

New Hampshire hospital partners with church to open preventative food pantry

To find out if patients at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, New Hampshire, are struggling with food insecurity, nurses ask them...

Revised equation moves thousands of Black Americans higher on kidney transplant waitlist

When Mario Hicks was put on the waitlist for a kidney transplant in 2019, his doctors told him that it probably would be 10 years before his turn would come.

Essentia Health's Resourceful platform connects people to social services

In its less than three years of existence, Essentia Health's public resource directory has been the conduit for 19,000 referrals to social services with more than one-third of those referrals resulting in services being accessed.

Milwaukee's Ascension St. Joseph offers free child care so patients can get to appointments

Milwaukee-area mom Ajah Lott knows how important it is to get to her prenatal appointments as she nears the September due date for her twins' arrival.

CHI Health and Omaha Fire Department partner to give essentials to people who are homeless

CHI Health of Omaha, Nebraska, recently partnered with the Omaha Fire Department to pack bags of essential supplies that they call blessing bags . . .

SSM Health uses screenings to connect maternal care patients to social services

SAN DIEGO — SSM Health is replicating across its four-state footprint a screening program to identify and address social needs that affect health among maternal care patients.

CHRISTUS hospital joins with nonprofit to offer remote food locker for people in need

CHRISTUS Good Shepherd Health System in eastern Texas has partnered with a Marshall, Texas, food pantry to open a remote food locker. Community members...

Saint Anthony Hospital goes electric with new fleet of vehicles

If many of its patients suffer from asthma, how can a hospital not only treat their illness but also ease their symptoms and even help keep them from getting sick in the first place?

Lifestyle Medicine Takes an Expansive View of Well-Being

Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan, creates groundbreaking programs that connect the medical facility with the community.

Mercy's volunteer time off benefit enables staff to build bonds with one another, serve their community

Several years ago, the Mercy health system repeatedly heard through co-worker feedback that associates want to benefit their community through volunteerism.

Tenant of Healthy Village at Saint Francis Hospital provides services for previously incarcerated women

Saint Francis Hospital of Wilmington, Delaware, is helping to support a local nonprofit called the HOPE Commission in its efforts to aid women who have been released from prison . . .

Caregivers of people with chronic conditions get support, resources at eastern Iowa center

When Bob Kazimour and his wife, Jan, were honorary chairs of a fundraising effort about a decade ago to raise capital to start the Family Caregivers Center on the Mercy Medical Center campus in Cedar Rapids...

After successful starts, Mercy and Avera Health are looking to expand hospital-at-home care

After successful starts, two Catholic health systems are diving deeper into hospital-at-home care. Mercy launched Mercy Hospital at Home in September, offering the acute care option . . .

Mercy Cedar Rapids partners on hub for dementia care programming, innovation

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Four years ago, Susie Winkowski and her husband left the resort they'd owned on the West Coast because his dementia was making it too difficult to keep up with . . .

Obstetrics ED is Ascension Wisconsin's latest effort to address maternal crises

One of the first patients at the new Obstetrics Emergency Department at Ascension St. Joseph hospital in Milwaukee was in drug withdrawal and having an acute mental health episode. . . .