Health

For the third year, the hospital received the highest rating in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services report.

COMMENCEMENT: Arthur Bookstein bikes across Japan to raise funds for AYA@USC, a program that supports adolescents and young adults with cancer.

COMMENCEMENT: In her research, Eleanor Batista-Malat found that older adults receiving home- and community-based services had the same likelihood of experiencing abuse as those not receiving services.

COMMENCEMENT: Alex Gramajo experienced firsthand the barriers faced by minority communities in his historically working-class community, from language gaps to under-resourced clinics.

Mark Sturdevant, a transplant surgeon with the USC Transplant Institute, lists key differentiators.

The collaboration has advanced the professional status, educational standards and workforce capacity of occupational therapy in mainland China.

COMMENCEMENT: Faith Huss, who served in the U.S. Army for 10 years prior to attending USC, will use her nutrition and dietetics expertise to serve patients at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Long Beach.

For the second time in a row, Keck Hospital of USC and USC Verdugo Hills Hospital received the highest grade possible for quality and safety from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit focused on patient safety.

Wynnie Nguyen was awarded a grant from the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund for studies aiming to stimulate growth of new brain cells and, ultimately, reverse the course of dementia.

The study, led by USC Leonard Davis Instructional Associate Professor Roberto Vicinanza, found that people who closely follow a Mediterranean-style diet have higher levels of two mitochondrial microproteins.