Trustee Newsletter 

Intermountain’s new clinical organization was announced in a series of meetings across the system on March 22 and 23. The purpose of the new structure: to provide a safer, more consistent, and affordable experience for our patients and communities wherever, whenever, and however they need us.

‘Homespire’ will include private-pay home care options like non-medical services that are essential to daily living outside of a care facility. This new care model will be available in the Salt Lake Valley starting May 1 and will expand throughout Utah over the next year.

As part of the partnership, 98 Information Systems employees at Intermountain will transition to DXC as their employer effective June 3, 2018. Another 260 IS caregivers aren’t affected by the change. Intermountain has already been working with DXC on multiple projects since 2012.

Primary Children’s Hospital patients and families joined the hospital’s Liver Transplant Program to celebrate a record-breaking 20 pediatric liver transplants completed in 2017, including the hospital's first split-liver transplant to benefit two Primary Children’s patients—an infant and a teen—at once.

Seth Glickman, MD, MBA, and the Community-Based Care team will be responsible for optimizing patient outcomes and managing total cost of care through effective population health management and seamless integration across the entire care continuum.

Community-Based Care includes the Intermountain Medical Group practice management and primary care physicians, affiliated primary care practice groups, Homecare & Hospice, Senior Services, Population Health, LiVe Well Centers, and InstaCares.

Hospital supporters gathered March 9 to kick off the fundraising campaign for the largest capital construction campaign in Washington County’s history: the expansion and consolidation project for Intermountain Dixie Regional Medical Center.

Researchers announce a long-term prospective study that has the potential to help physicians and researchers unlock genomic data. PRECISE is an approved study that allows for serial collection of fresh-tissue and blood specimens for research purposes.

Intermountain Healthcare and Stanford Medicine researchers and senior leaders gathered in March to showcase how both organizations are working together to transform healthcare through innovative research. 

Organizations were selected for the list based on workforce-centric awards received, benefits offerings, wellness initiatives, and efforts to improve professional development, diversity and inclusion, work-life balance, and a sense of community and unity among employees.

The annual event, presented by the Intermountain Research and Medical Foundation, raises funds to advance cardiovascular and pulmonary health through clinical research that leads to clinical application. Nearly 500 people attended, who helped raise more than $160,000 for cardiovascular and pulmonary research.

We regularly spotlight a trustee serving on an Intermountain board.

James “Cid” Seidelman, Intermountain Board Chair for Salt Lake Valley Hospitals (formerly called the Central Region), wrote an op-ed in the Thursday, April 12, issue of the Deseret News entitled “Healthcare Organizations Must Skate to Where the Puck Is Going to Be.”

Read summaries of recent news stories about Intermountain in the national and international media.