Pasadena Hospital & Medical Center
As a designated Magnet hospital, Huntington Health is a recognized leader in nursing excellence. Every day, our nurses go above and beyond for our patients, and we are proud to recognize them for their efforts. Huntington Health’s November 2021 DAISY Award winner, Kimberly Strong, RN, 4 West, was nominated by a patient who wrote the […]
Preventive care is an essential tool in helping to maintain your overall health — especially if you’re an older adult. Preventive health services can stop the onset or progression of disease and disability, ultimately helping patients avoid trips to the emergency department. “The importance of preventive care cannot be overstated,” says Huntington Health-affiliated emergency medicine […]
Recently, Huntington Hospital held its fourth ceremony to honor team members with the Heart of Huntington Award. The quarterly presentation recognizes two finalists and two recipients that have been nominated by their peers for their outstanding compassion, caring and collaboration. To acknowledge the vast and varied contributions by team members, there is a category for those […]
Flu season is just around the corner, and it is important that Pasadenans and our neighbors throughout the San Gabriel Valley and surrounding communities take steps to guard against the flu, especially as we continue to battle COVID-19. According to the CDC, seasonal flu is associated with large numbers of hospitalizations. These estimates of flu-related […]
Huntington Health recently has announced that Lori J. Morgan, MD, MBA, president and CEO, has been elected to the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Board of Trustees for a three-year term beginning Jan. 1, 2023. The board is the highest policymaking body of the AHA and has ultimate authority for the governance and management of its […]
Earlier this month, Huntington Health hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the relocation and reopening of the furniture, home décor and clothing resale shop Huntington Collection. The shop, which is now located at 2670 East Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, donates all proceeds to the Senior Care Network (SCN), a nationally recognized program that helps more than 15,000 […]
With back-to-school fever filling calendars and social media timelines, there’s no question – class is officially in session. And Rosemarie Cervantes, RN, clinical manager of the mother baby unit and interim manager of the Family Birth Center, Huntington Health, was inspired to help. “I was watching the news, and there was a story on how […]
With the World Health Organization, and now the White House, declaring monkeypox a public health emergency, you may be feeling worried, especially after enduring the COVID-19 pandemic. Now what? Fortunately, monkeypox is no COVID-19 – not even close. So is a collective sigh of relief warranted? In many respects, yes. It can’t spread far through […]
By Kimberly Shriner, MD, FACP Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control, Huntington Health As if our past two and a half years of dealing with COVID was not enough, the director of W.H.O. has declared monkeypox a global health emergency. In the last few weeks, this viral disease has spread around the world and is […]
By Kimberly A. Shriner, MD, Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control, Huntington Health As we all know, we are seeing yet another highly contagious variant of COVID-19 in our community, Omicron BA.4 and BA.5. You likely know at least one person who has been infected over the past month or so, and our hospital […]