Specialty Care
Essential hospitals serve a critical role in meeting public health needs by improving population health and preparing for and responding to natural disasters and other crises. Members of America’s Essential Hospitals are on the front lines responding to disasters across the country, from severe storms and infectious disease outbreaks to mass shootings and other emergencies.
As community resources for highly specialized emergency and intensive care, communities rely on the trauma services essential hospitals provide, including burn, psychiatric, pediatric, and neonatal intensive care.
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Contact us at info@essentialhospitals.org or 202.585.0100.
New Resources for Hypertension Management
July 1, 2020 ||HHS released the second edition of the Million Hearts Hypertension Control Change Package, a compilation of concepts, ideas, and evidence- and practice-based tools and resources used by health centers and clinics to improve hypertension control.
view more »Essential Hospital Rises to COVID-19 Challenges with CORE+ Unit
June 25, 2020 ||In Philadelphia, leaders at association member Einstein Healthcare Network opened a dedicated CORE+ unit to provide post-acute care for COVID-19 patients.
view more »Cultivating Resilient Caregivers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
June 4, 2020 ||Essential hospitals The MetroHealth System, Nebraska Medicine, and ChristianaCare share their work to promote staff resilience and well-being.
view more »HHS Announces Disaster Response Funding Opportunity
June 18, 2018 ||The Partnership For Disaster Health Response grant offers $6 million for two partnerships to improve disaster readiness and response across the delivery system.
view more »Orlando Health Publishes Online Disaster Response Resource
May 4, 2018 ||The webpage documents the health system’s response to the June 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting and encourages other hospitals to create disaster response plans.
view more »Essential Hospital Shares Pulse Tragedy Experience to Help Others
Oct. 27, 2017 ||Orlando Regional Medical Center has turned the June 2016 nightclub shooting into an opportunity to help other hospitals and communities prepare for, and recover from, mass casualty events.
view more »New Online CDC Module Simulates Outbreaks
Sept. 18, 2017 ||Two free online simulations help health care providers improve decision-making skills during infectious disease outbreaks and public health emergencies.
view more »3D Printers Help Surgeons Prep for the OR
April 5, 2016 ||Surgeons and medical residents at The University of Kansas Hospital can use MRI or CT scan data to print replicas of patients’ surgical sites.
view more »Innovative Tool Enhances Breast Cancer Care
March 30, 2016 ||Einstein Medical Center first in Philadelphia to use new device to detect cancer cells during lumpectomies, reducing the risk of repeat operations by up to 50 percent.
view more »Labor Pains Are a Laughing Matter at HCMC
March 11, 2016 ||Hennepin County Medical Center, responding to patient requests and new availability of equipment in the United States, begins offering nitrous oxide as an option to manage pain during labor.
view more »Henry Ford Brings Cutting-Edge Technology to Brain Center
Jan. 29, 2016 ||Detroit hospital among first in nation to deploy state-of-the-art BrightMatter brain surgery technology, which will make possible operations that previously were too risky to perform.
view more »Association Member Part of New Ebola Training, Education Center
July 6, 2015 ||New York’s Bellevue Hospital Center to join Emory University and University of Nebraska Medical Center in collaboration with federal agencies.
view more »Howard University Hospital Responds to DC Metro Emergency
Jan. 13, 2015 ||Howard University Hospital treats DC Metro accident victims after smoke emergency
view more »Hope and a Home for Acute-Care Dialysis
Aug. 12, 2014 ||Harris Health System’s quick triage model and best practices for growing number of acute-care dialysis patients
view more »Eskenazi Tackles Dementia, Depression with Aging Brain Care Medical Home
July 29, 2014 ||Mobile office concept and cost-efficient use of staff dramatically reduces patients’ depressive and psychological symptoms.
view more »Geriatrics Providers Forge New Ground via Shared Personal Experience
March 5, 2014 ||BMC researchers found that geriatrics clinicians feel complex stressors when caring for an older family member
view more »Pet Visitation Program Calms Cardiac Patients
April 29, 2013 ||The University Medical Center of El Paso program has helped boost patient morale and reduce stress levels
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