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December 30, 2015 Misdiagnosed Dementia Patient Back to What She Loves Thanks to Customized Occupational Therapy Media Contact Dementia is a diagnosis nobody wants to receive and Constance Lundberg was no exception. Full Story
December 23, 2015 Plan to minimize homelessness receives Intermountain support Media Contact Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams announced an Intermountain Healthcare community contribution to assist the county’s initiative to minimize homelessness. Full Story
December 21, 2015 New Palliative Care Clinic Helps Patients Adjust To Life With A Serious Illness Media Contact 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. Full Story
December 16, 2015 A Holiday Reunion: Utah Mom and Newborn to Reunite with Medical Team That Saved Mom’s Life After Blood Clot Nearly Kills Her Media Contact 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. Full Story
December 10, 2015 Research Team Led by Intermountain Medical Center Physician Discovers New Cure for Hepatitis C Virus in Patients with Advanced Liver Disease Media Contact 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. Full Story
December 7, 2015 Intermountain Healthcare President and CEO to Retire Media Contact Charles W. Sorenson, MD, President and CEO of Intermountain Healthcare, has announced that he will retire as CEO in October of 2016. Full Story
November 30, 2015 Joint Commission recognizes 11 Intermountain hospitals as Top Performers Media Contact 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. Full Story
November 25, 2015 Double Amputee Benefits from Power of Gratitude Media Contact 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. Full Story
November 24, 2015 Life Flight receives Aviation Safety Award Media Contact 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. Full Story
November 12, 2015 Partnership to Measure and Define Impact of Blood Draw Enhancements Media Contact 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. Full Story
