Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association (VHHA)

Check out this blog from VCU Health to learn how they are leveraging the power of data and AI to revolutionize patient care, research, and operational efficiency: https://lnkd.in/dh6dimXx

For people on Tangier Island on the Eastern Shore, the Riverside Health drone delivery program ensures they have access to the life-saving medications they need even if they can't leave their home. Check out this article from 13News Now (WVEC) to learn more: https://lnkd.in/dfCJ3Xek

Navigators at Augusta Health ensure that patients with breast cancer get the support they need as they continue on their treatment journey. Read more from WHSV - TV / Gray Television to learn about this impactful program: https://lnkd.in/gQyHH3Yk

Collaboration between Blue Ridge Area Food Bank and Augusta Health ensures people experiencing food insecurity can be prescribed fresh vegetable, grown at a farm just across the street. Read more about the food pharmacy from the Daily News Record: https://lnkd.in/ea9PDP2f

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Sue Henneberry, a Richmond-area woman who volunteers at Sheltering Arms Institute, a provider she previously encountered as a rehabilitation patient following a limb amputation. During our conversation, we’ll learn more about Sue, the medical condition that led to amputation, her impressive athletic achievements since then, and more: https://lnkd.in/e9cFpwcW

A team of VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists, with the support of a $13m grant from National Cancer Institute (NCI), could change the way liver cancer is treated. Read this post from VCU Health for more: https://lnkd.in/gdVW6MQt

Talking with loved ones, especially teens, about mental health can be challenging. Read this article from WSLS 10 to learn best practices from experts at UVA Health to get the conversation started: https://lnkd.in/dtwUrwmv

Meet Chris Beck, one of roughly on 50 people who, in the last 25 years, has donated more than one organ to two different people. Learn more about his story as a double living organ donor at HCA Virginia Health System: https://lnkd.in/gvv9CHYY

The Mary Washington Healthcare team recently completed a procedure with the Impella RP Flex, a heart pump that temporarily supports patients in cardiogenic shock due to acute right heart failure, making them the first in the region to do so. Story from Potomac Local News : https://lnkd.in/gD5JYa6q

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Amy Rosa DNP, Vice President and Chief Nursing Informatics Officer for Sentara Health, for a conversation about her work and professional journey, and some insight about how smartphone technology is being leveraged in Sentara hospitals to enhance patient care: https://lnkd.in/ekCczPWy