Projects provide Fellows the opportunity to contribute their skills, abilities, and talents to major projects and initiatives that impact our business, the lives of our patients, and the future of healthcare.

Below is a partial list of outstanding projects and initiatives in which past Fellows have played a major role in orchestrating at Intermountain Healthcare:

Population Health and Castell

  • Assisting in the development and tracking of metrics for the Physician Payment Model and creating a portal for physicians to view and track these metrics
  • Developing a Population Health strategy for the Park City/Heber Valley Region
  • Developing a risk-adjusted staffing model for care coordinators

Patient Engagement 

  • Assembling key stakeholders and leading the Patient Engagement Technology Workstream, and developing the charter for the committee
  • Designing a telemedicine strategic plan for the health system, and preparing for a tele-stroke pilot
  • Operationalizing the Community Care Management (CCM) pilot program at McKay-Dee Hospital

Strategic Planning and Analysis

  • Developing a service line strategic plan for Developmental Pediatrics and Autism
  • Building 3-year caregiver wellbeing strategic plan and tactics
  • Leading the strategic expansion of LGBTQ+ Health serve offerings and care coordination
  • Developing a strategic plan for Sports & Performance Medicine

Operations and Continuous Improvement

  • Authoring a grant to create the Behavioral Health Learning Network, a collective of internal and external caregivers aimed to reduce the prevalence of behavioral health-related ED visits in adolescents
  • Developing a pediatric telehospitalist program under Intermountain’s Virtual Hospital System
  • Leading projects to improve caregiver safety outcomes at Primary Children’s Hospital
  • Facilitating a process improvement project between the operating room and the hematology/oncology clinic to reduce serious safety events and near misses
  • Leading a study on the future of the Intermountain Operating Model
  • Leading enterprise-wide workforce simplification project for nursing to increase engagement and mitigate burnout

Community Health

  • Developing the 2023-2025 Community Health Implementation Strategy through prioritizing findings from Community Health Needs Assessment
  • Organizing Community Health Flu Shot Clinic at LDS Hospital
  • Performing gap analysis on community behavioral health offering to underrepresented communities
  • Identifying opportunities for improvement of system suicide prevention strategy

Telehealth

  • Designing and executing a business plan to develop and launch a Virtual Primary Care program for the system
  • Designing program structure including staffing needs, process workflows, financial structure, marketing and communication 
  • Outlining short and long-term program development strategies to add additional services and expand to new audiences and markets