2015

Dementia is a diagnosis nobody wants to receive and Constance Lundberg was no exception.

Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams announced an Intermountain Healthcare community contribution to assist the county’s initiative to minimize homelessness.  

December 21 — PROVO — When Gwen Clements began having pain in her back, she passed it off as a slipped disk and went to see her doctor. The results of an MRI revealed something more serious – cancer.

Two days after delivering her first child, Arlee Gregerson nearly died. But thanks to the swift action and life-saving coordination of medical teams at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Arlee and her baby are both doing well and will return to the hospital to reunite with the doctors and nurses who saved her life one month ago. 

About 2.7 million people in the United States have a chronic hepatitis C virus infection, which can lead to liver failure or death. But thanks to new research led by researchers at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, there’s new hope for patients with advanced liver disease due to the chronic viral infection.

Charles W. Sorenson, MD, President and CEO of Intermountain Healthcare, has announced that he will retire as CEO in October of 2016.

The Joint Commission has released a list of hospitals it considers to be “Top Performers on Key Quality Measures” — and 11 of the 15 Utah hospitals that are on the list are Intermountain facilities.

A terrible industrial accident that took both his legs has given John Vrana a new outlook on life, more gratitude, and an increased focus on family.

Intermountain’s Life Flight medical transport service recently received the 2015 Vision Zero Aviation Safety Award. The award recognizes a program or company that has demonstrated a commitment to aviation safety, spotlights specific safety initiatives, and encourages the sharing of ideas so others in the industry may learn from them.

Intermountain Healthcare, a not-for-profit health system of 22 hospitals based in Salt Lake City, and Velano Vascular, a medical technology company transforming and enhancing the care experience for hospitalized patients and their practitioners, announced today that they have partnered to define the costs and identify improvement opportunities related to one of the most common medical procedures performed today – inpatient blood draws.  This relationship represents the first formal, system-wide analysis to comprehensively measure the integral and varied components of a procedure that affects nearly every hospitalized patient around the world.