Congratulations to the following 8 Intermountain Health hospitals for being recognized by Vizient with the Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award for 2024! Top perfomers in the comprehensive academic medical center cohort: ✔️ Intermountain Medical Center - Murray, Utah Top performers in the large, specialized complex care medical center cohort: ✔️ McKay-Dee Hospital - Ogden, Utah ✔️ St. George Regional Hospital - St. George, Utah ✔️ Utah Valley Hospital - Provo, Utah Top performers in the community hospital cohort: ✔️ Alta View Hospital - Sandy, Utah ✔️ Cedar City Hospital - Cedar City, Utah ✔️ Layton Hospital - Layton, Utah ✔️ Riverton Hospital - Riverton, Utah The Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award recognizes participating healthcare organizations in four cohorts through the Vizient Quality and Accountability Study, which measures performance on the quality of patient care in six domains: safety, mortality, effectiveness, efficiency, patient centeredness and equity. The study factors in measures from the Vizient Clinical Data Base and includes performance data from the HCAHPS survey and the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network.
It’s no secret care management caregivers have compassionate hearts and a drive to help those in need. Learn how Eva Hobson, LCSW, works with patients who present in crisis or require behavioral health intervention
A small crowd gathered in the lobby of Select Health’s Utah headquarters, individuals exchanging shy smiles and greetings as they slowly “put a face to the name” they’d come to know so well via email. It was “Select Health Day” for Select Health Scholarship recipients to meet their Select Health mentor in person and take a tour. The experience aimed to educate and support Select Health’s scholarship beneficiaries but would prove to exceed expectations. The scholarship recipients, students at Salt Lake Community College (SLCC), all have one thing in common: a goal to overcome personal financial challenges and enter the healthcare workforce to make a difference for their communities. To this end, Select Health invests $5,000 in each selected student with demonstrated financial need, to cover tuition, and help make their career dream a reality.
Our caregivers save lives across the Intermountain Health system every day. What does it actually feel like to save a life? Three caregivers share their experiences and the incredible ways their intuition, training, and compassion made the difference between life and death.
At the end of May, the Central Microbiology Lab’s average turnaround was at 85 hours. For teams at St. George, where specimens had to be received by the onsite lab, processed and only then sent four hours by courier to the Central Lab to be tested, the entire wait could stretch out close to five days. Meanwhile, teams at Central Microbiology were pulling 12- and 13-hour days just to stay afloat. That kind of volume – from hospitals all over the Canyons and Desert Regions – can quickly turn into a bottleneck. That’s why, in 2019, Intermountain Health invested in an automated line to take over the job of streaking cultures and incubating them under the correct conditions to grow as quickly as possible. When this turnaround time issue was escalated through our huddle process,” said Karen Brownell, vice president of laboratory services, “it was escalated to me.” Karen brought in continuous improvement. Learn more about how our continuous improvement team partnered to identify opportunities to increase efficiency and eliminate waste in both the Central Lab and the lab at St. George in the article below.
Happy National APP Week to all of our incredible advanced practice providers at Intermountain Health! #NationalAPPWeek
Earlier this month, twelve clinics moved into the new Lutheran Medical Office Building in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, ambulatory sister to the new Lutheran Hospital next door. One key player in that milestone was Design & Construction project manager Jessie Becker. We caught up with her to talk about what it takes to move twelve clinics into a new space and how the future of construction might just be a woman’s world.
The Supply Chain Organization (SCO) is celebrating a 51,000-square-foot expansion at its state-of-the-art warehouse in Midvale, Utah, which includes expansion of Acute Care pharmacy operations. In addition, the Specialty Care Pharmacy and Home Delivery teams have consolidated their operations onto the SCO campus with a remodel of under-utilized administrative space. Check out a gallery of photos and videos of the warehouse, see how a robot doubles the number of prescriptions filled, and learn the cost savings this expansion brings in the article below.
At Intermountain Health, our commitment to community health extends well beyond the walls of our hospitals. To learn more about our community impact, check out our 2023 Annual Report below.
Take it from a cancer survivor, pickleball enthusiast, and leader of the virtual Be Well physical fitness classes at Intermountain Health: you can find the time and energy to create a successful exercise recipe with long-lasting health benefits. “Experiment,” said Cami Flygare, Intermountain's health and wellness manager. “Try different classes and activities. Maybe go back to something you used to enjoy doing. As long as you enjoy it, you're more likely to continue it.” She and her health and wellness colleagues, Dawn Brown and Melissa Wiseman, took some time to share who they are and several tips for how our caregivers can enhance their well-being through Be Well's virtual classes despite their busy schedules.
