Utah Coronavirus Update, February 28, 2020

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has requested Intermountain Healthcare provide care for a person that was diagnosed with the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outside the state of Utah. The patient will be treated at Intermountain Medical Center in a special unit that’s separate from the hospital and designed for high-level isolation that is only available at a few hospitals in the U.S. It’s a self-contained unit with its own entrances and independent water and air filtration. 

Intermountain's highly-trained nurses and physicians in this unit will care for the individual until all tests are negative for COVID-19. Care will be provided in alignment with CDC guidance. 

Caring for this patient in this setting is not a public health threat.  Intermountain will continue to work closely with the CDC and Utah Department of Health to address this issue and take every precaution to keep the patient, our caregivers, and the community safe.

Video of the press conference can be seen at https://www.facebook.com/Intermountain/videos/623250228489840/.

Another video informational video with Mark Briesacher, Intermountain Healthcare Sr. VP, Chief Physician Executive and President, Intermountain Medical Group, can be seen at https://youtu.be/slZUnOjwrW4. 

Intermountain Healthcare is a not-for-profit system of 24 hospitals, 215 clinics, a Medical Group with 2,500 employed physicians and advanced practice clinicians, a health insurance company called SelectHealth, and other health services in Idaho, Utah, and Nevada. Intermountain is widely recognized as a leader in transforming healthcare by using evidence-based best practices to consistently deliver high-quality outcomes and sustainable costs. .