HCA Healthcare is privileged to be a national partner with March of Dimes, an organization that leads the fight for the health of all moms and babies. Together, we work to end preterm birth and unite communities everywhere to achieve health equity for moms and babies alike. Through our partnership, HCA Healthcare has contributed towards advocacy priorities that advance research and that has the potential to improve the lives of moms, babies and families across the country. Did you know? Our network of hospitals welcomes more babies than any other U.S. healthcare provider in the country — more ..read more

In these unprecedented and unpredictable times – moments of new life and hope shine through. Amy Casseri, vice president of women’s and children’s services at HCA Healthcare, shares our organization’s steadfast commitment to mothers and babies during COVID-19. (Orange Park, Fla.) During COVID-19, Ian and Monica welcomed their daughter, Alana, to the world at HCA Healthcare’s Orange Park Medical Center.Amy Casseri, HCA Healthcare’s vice president of women’s and children’s services Each year, hundreds of thousands of expectant mothers place their trust in HCA Healthcare to bring their babies in ..read more

January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness around risk factors and treatments for cervical cancer. It is also a time to celebrate that the mortality rate for cervical cancer has dropped by 50% in the past 40 years, which is attributed to the widespread use of Pap smears. Erika Hamilton, MD, Director of the Breast Cancer and Gynecologic Cancer Research Program at Sarah Cannon Research Institute“But this doesn’t mean that women should assume that their risk of developing this type of cancer is so low that it isn’t worth worrying about,” says Erika Hamilton, MD, Direct ..read more

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an annual campaign to raise awareness around breast cancer.  This year, we encourage you to learn something new about breast cancer.  Sarah Cannon, the Cancer Institute of HCA Healthcare, shines light on a type of breast cancer, triple negative breast cancer, below.   Approximately every half hour, a woman in the U.S. is diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). What is TNBC? How is it different from other forms of breast cancer? Dr. Stephanie Graff, Director of the Breast Cancer Program at Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute at HCA Midwest Healt ..read more

Big Little Lies is a best-selling-book-turned-hit-HBO-drama that begins as a murder-mystery and binds five women together over – you guessed it – one big lie. It has all the makings of an instant cult classic. But that’s not all. Actresses who play the “Monterey Five” on the TV show ‘Big Little Lies.’ Photo credit: Shutterstock.com The series also skillfully tackles a mental health condition that affects roughly 8 million adults each year: post-traumatic stress disorder, also known as, PTSD – an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events. While many people ass ..read more

When a newborn is brought into the world, mothers often experience a floodgate of emotions: excitement, jitters, joy. But, the beautiful milestone of a birth may trigger other feelings for new moms: isolation, numbness, hopelessness. There is a deepening silence around these feelings and a generalized stigma surrounding a prevalent maternal mental illness called postpartum depression (PPD). You’ve probably heard the term at some point in your lifetime. You might even know a mother who has experienced it. Each year, hundreds of thousands of women suffer in silence from postpartum depression and ..read more

Labor and delivery nurse Lisa Jones has dedicated her life to helping others build their families. Lisa Jones, a gestational surrogate-turned-labor and delivery nurse at HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake, has dedicated her life to helping others build their families. Good Morning America dubbed her as the “incredible nurse” who “births babies for those who can’t and delivers them for those who can.” “For a good bit of time, I was helping create families with my own body,” said Jones, who has carried babies for women who couldn’t do it themselves. As a nurse, “now I get to help create families ..read more

Spring brings new hope and new beginnings, and for breakthroughs in cancer treatment, this season is off to a promising start. Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first-ever immunotherapy (atezolizumab), in combination with chemotherapy, for the treatment of breast cancer. “Immunotherapy is a drug that we’ve been using in other cancer types – lung and bladder cancer – but we’ve never had that opportunity for women with breast cancer,” Dr. Stephanie Graff, Director of the Breast Program at Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute at HCA Midwest Health, told their l ..read more