Stories about improving the lives of healthcare professionals, patients, and families.

Dr. Penny Cooper, DHSc, is a data scientist at Augusta Health

Augusta Health is a community hospital nestled in Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley focused on improving the health and well-being of our community. The statewide sepsis mortality rate in…

Hundreds of thousands of people in the United States fall in the hospital each year, and a third to a half of those falls result in injury…

“I’m bringing a patient up,” says Mark Frye, a nurse in the PACU. “Ted Jones, 33 years old. He came in through the ED. We believe he was in a motor vehicle collision. He has an open compound fracture of the left femur with external repair. He remains unresponsive with a head injury…