Utah Valley Regional Medical Center

Planned and unplanned heart treatments confronted Neil and Jolene Durrant.

In Neil’s case, it was a scheduled heart angiogram. In Jolene’s case, it was a massive heart attack after which Neil performed CPR to help save her life. What makes the story unusual is that both Durrants’ were in the hospital at the same time, the first time that had ever happened at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center.

Intermountain Heart Institute

At Intermountain Healthcare, we’ve implemented a team approach in our heart transplant program that ensures patients are more prepared before their transplant and better cared for afterwards.

Dixie Regional Medical Center

You never know when you may have a heart problem and there is never a good time to have one.

For Kevin Shakespeare from Tropic, Utah, he thought he was suffering heart burn at first. But soon realized it was more serious, he was having a heart attack. That’s when experienced and skilled heart specialists stepped in to help him on his way to recovery.

Utah Valley Regional Medical Center

Treating each patient and their families as individuals is an important part of healing hearts for Intermountain.

For LaVell Edwards and his family, it meant Intermountain's heart specialists outlined his different heart care options, explained in detail each procedure and took the time to answer all their questions.

It also meant, the specialists kept the family aware of LaVell's progress while in the operating room, giving them peace of mind, allowing the healing to happen.

Intermountain Heart Institute

Melvin Purcell has seen and experienced many medical innovations over his lifetime. He was one of the first people in the nation to undergo cardiac bypass surgery, allowing him to continue to do the things he loved doing.

Now, many years later, Melvin experienced another innovation. He was one of the first in Utah to receive a new aortic valve via a small catheter instead of by traditional open-heart surgery, which means a person can get back to their normal activities sooner.

In Melvin’s case, it means he can more quickly get back to life with the one he loves, his wife Dorothy.

Intermountain Heart Services

Hospital emergency rooms nationwide have done research on how to diagnose chest pain.

One Utah healthcare organization has rigorously studied all the national research and distilled it into one standard proven to work best. Because of it, the chest pain diagnosis at Intermountain Healthcare is faster and more correct, so each individual patient can be treated as effectively as possible. Just another reason we’re Utah’s leading heart care organization.

It’s Never Too Late

It doesn’t matter how old or young you are, you can start preventing heart problems today. Create your heart healthy habits by starting with some easy steps and build up from there.

It’s never too late to start.

Keeping Your Heart Healthy

What should you know about keeping your heart healthy? Knowing your cholesterol, blood pressure and weight and how they affect your heart is a good start, but also important is your family history.

Use the Heart Risk Assessment tool (you’ll find the link for it on the left) to see where you are.

Starting today, what should you be doing?

Reduced heart risk, reduced Alzheimer’s risk

Utilizing data from thousands of past patients, Intermountain researchers have discovered a link between heart health and Alzheimer’s.

Saving Lives Through Education

There is widespread evidence to show that heart failure medications and devices can improve survival, but results from a new study show that providing patient education is just as important.

13 Heart Disease Genes Discovered

Initially, there were 10 genes known to be related to heart disease. Intermountain Healthcare researchers have been part of an international team that has discovered an additional 13.

New Methods to Fix Bad Heart Valves

There’s nothing new in using catheters to fix heart problems. What’s new is replacing an entire aortic valve using a catheter. That means a small, inch-wide incision for major heart surgery. Which in turn means a person may be back to their normal activities sooner.

There’s only one Utah healthcare organization qualified to perform this procedure: Intermountain Healthcare. Just one of many reasons we’re Utah’s heart care leader.

New Heart Catheter Technology. Better results

A new magnetic catheter opens up possibilities for heart patients, allowing our heart experts to perform a procedure never before done in the United States: inserting a heart pump during an arrhythmia procedure.

Heart rhythm treatments results no one else matches

Heart arrhythmia issues are common. Luckily, they can almost always be cured. But treatment results are not the same everywhere.

Utilizing proven technology and techniques, one Utah healthcare organization solves arrhythmia problems more often with better results, helping people feel better and live longer. That organization is Intermountain Healthcare.

Just one of the many reasons we’re Utah’s heart care leader.