Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center (Richmond, Va.). VCU Medical Center is part of VCU Health, which comprises the university’s five health sciences schools, Community Memorial Hospital of Richmond at VCU, VCU Massey Cancer Center and Virginia Premier, a health plan.…
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston). Sidney Farber, MD, founded the Children’s Cancer Research Foundation in 1947 to conduct research and provide state-of-the-art treatment to children with cancer. Dr. Farber also launched the first chemotherapy research program for children with cancer. In…
Cleveland Clinic. In 2015-16, U.S. News & World Report ranked the Cleveland Clinic as the No. 5 hospital in the country, as well as No. 1 in Ohio and No. 1 in the Cleveland area. The hospital is nationally ranked…
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (Winston-Salem, N.C.). Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s history dates back to 1923, when North Carolina Baptist Hospital opened. In 1941, the hospital and the Bowman Gray School of Medicine entered into a partnership, laying the…
Primum non nocere—'First, do no harm'—is the guiding principle of modern healthcare. The latest in making this possible are advances in wireless connectivity, which allow clinicians and staff to be more efficient and deliver better care to patients.
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Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital. Yale-New Haven Hospital got its start in 1826 as the nation’s fourth voluntary hospital, founded as a charitable institution to care for the poor. It has a history of caring for U.S. servicemen — sailors from…
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Cincinnati Children’s is a nonprofit academic medical center affiliated with the University of Cincinnati Department of Pediatrics. The medical center was founded in 1883 by three Cincinnati women who wanted to open a hospital specifically…
No one is safe from ransomware, it would seem. In recent months organizations from law enforcement agencies to schools and hospitals have fallen victim to these malicious computer viruses. Now the FBI is drawing attention to just how dangerous the…
Christiana Hospital (Newark, Del.). Christiana Hospital, a 913-bed, 1.3 million-square-foot teaching hospital, is the namesake hospital for the Christiana Care Health System. The hospital opened in 1985, but the health system it brands has roots going back to 1890 when…