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When the new Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge, CO, part of Intermountain Health, welcomes patients in 2024, it will be a sleek, energy-efficient "hospital of the future," outfitted with innovative technology. The new building will be an accessible and patient-centered facility, that will meet the current and future needs of a vibrant, diverse community.
Congratulations to the following Intermountain Health hospitals for being recognized by The Chartis Center for Rural Health for quality of care and the critical role they play in serving their communities! Top 100 Critical Access Hospitals 2023: - Garfield Memorial Hospital – Panguitch, UT - Heber Valley Hospital – Heber City, UT Top 100 Rural & Community Hospitals 2023: - Bear River Valley Hospital – Tremonton, UT - Cedar City Hospital – Cedar City, UT - Park City Hospital – Park City, UT - Sevier Valley Hospital – Richfield, UT - St. James Healthcare – Butte, MT
SelectHealth®, a nonprofit health plan serving more than one million members in Utah, Idaho and Nevada, recently announced Curt Howell as market president of the company’s Peaks Region. He will lead the development and execution of strategic initiatives as SelectHealth enters the Colorado health insurance market later this year. In his role, Howell will be responsible for working with regulatory, legislative, and business stakeholders; investigating and sourcing new business opportunities; building new relationships within the community; and working with network provider partners (including Intermountain Health) to provide these new communities with affordable and high-quality health plans.
We're proud to be recognized as one of Becker's Healthcare's 2023 list of 150 top places to work in healthcare! The organizations highlighted on this list provide comprehensive benefits packages, opportunities for professional development, inclusive work environments and the flexibility needed for a true work-life balance. These honorees prove that when employees' needs and desires are met, the entire organization is better for it - they are able to make a greater impact on the lives of patients.
Doctors go to great lengths to care for patients and their families. There is no hashtag too long to describe how great they are. What's your #Grateful hashtag? Happy National Doctors' Day! #ThankYouForDiagnosingTreatingAndPreventingIllnessForEmpathizingWithEncouragingAndComfortingPatientsAndForBringingTogetherScienceAndHumanityForAHealthierWorld #NationalDoctorsDay
Development in east Aurora, CO is on pace to add 60,000 residential units in the next 5 to 10 years representing about 120,000 projected new residents. Last week, legacy SCL Health Medical Group, now part of Intermountain Health, broke ground on a massive new medical office building to meet the growing demand for healthcare options in one of the fastest-expanding markets on the Front Range. In the next 5 years Intermountain plans to bring close to 50 additional providers to the east Denver metro area, most of whom will practice in the new medical office building. Located on Gun Club Road near the junction of I-70 and E-470, the building will represent Intermountain and SCL Health's largest care offering in the area with a planned 80,000 square feet of practice space. “It’s our mission and our promise to deliver comprehensive, high-quality healthcare close to home,” said Christopher Awtrey, MD, MHCDS, MBA, vice president and chief medical officer for legacy SCL Health Medical Group on the Front Range. “This is what that promise looks like in action.”
Health systems are elevating digital chiefs to lead their digital transformation and data analytics strategies. Craig Richardville, our Senior VP and Chief Information and Digital Officer at Intermountain Health, was recently featured as one of Becker's "35 hospital and health system chief digital officers to know" in 2023. His responsibilities include management and leadership of our health system’s information technology, including strategy, applications, operations, information security, informatics, data and analytics, and leading our digital transformation and information automation. He has over 20 years of experience using data as a driving force for better care solutions. Due to his success in his roles, he earned the National CIO of the Year ORBIE Award in 2021.
Intermountain Health has launched Culmination Bio, a biotech company that plans to help analyze millions of data points to predict, prevent and treat disease. The company is developing an anonymized, deidentified data platform that will be used to gain clinical insights and discover new treatments. The tool will be offered to tech, biopharma and other healthcare companies. "Culmination Bio was built to expand on the success of Intermountain's precision medicine efforts by creating longitudinal, multimodal data sets," said Lincoln Nadauld, MD, PhD, CEO of Culmination and a former vice president and chief of precision health at Intermountain, in a March 17 news release. "Culmination's powerful insights platform will unlock the next generation of discoveries to advance healthcare." Intermountain Ventures, our health system's venture capital arm, helped propel the new company.
Congratulations to Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, UT for being named a Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospital by Fortune and Premier's PINC AI, a healthcare improvement and technology company. Those in the top 50 operated at lower cost and had better outcomes, had significantly higher inpatient survival rates, fewer patients with complications, lower readmission rates and spent up to $5,076 less in total costs per patient case. If all hospitals operated at the level of the top 50, there would be 7,600 fewer deaths due to heart disease, 6,700 fewer patients with complications and more than $1 billion saved each year, according to the analysis.
March 19th is celebrated annually as Certified Nurses Day, a time to recognize the achievement of nurses who have earned professional certification. Not only do patients and their families benefit from receiving the care given by a certified nurse, but research shows that care provided by certified nurses is associated with lower complication rates, including patient falls and healthcare-associated infections. In addition, studies have shown that patient satisfaction scores increase as the number of certified nurses increase. Please join us and the nation’s national nursing certification organizations in honoring our Certified Nurses for their professionalism and dedication!
