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Nursing In-Person Hiring Event: Date: Monday, April 3rd, 2023 Time: 3pm - 6pm MST Location: Intermountain Medical Center Education Center (Doty Auditorium) 5131 Cottonwood St Murray, UT 84107 Join us & explore what a nursing career with Intermountain could offer you! Come connect with our nursing hiring teams to learn more about our facilities, specialties, our nurse residency program & more. Full-time, part-time & PRN opportunities currently available! RSVP for this event here: https://bit.ly/imhrnevent42023 We look forward to connecting with you!
Congratulations to Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, CO, Alta View Hospital in Sandy, UT, and St. George Regional Hospital in St. George, UT for being recognized for patient experience in 2023 by Healthgrades! Healthgrades recognized 864 hospitals with its 2023 Patient Safety Excellence Awards and Outstanding Patient Experience Award. Only 83 of those hospitals received both awards.
Access to healthy food is crucial to children's health, especially children with chronic health conditions. Rachel Hendrickson, a social worker at the diabetes clinic at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City, said concerns about food often come up when she is talking with her patients throughout all 55 Primary Children's clinics. She said there are about 1,000 patients struggling with food each month. Now, Primary Children's Hospital has its own facility to provide food for those who need it, and it is called Primary Pantry. Instead of giving families a referral, hospital workers can now give them the food they need right there, Hendrickson said. "I am incredibly excited that we now have this offering for our patients and families. We know that we're going to be able to help children today and long into the future. And it will make them healthier, happier children," said Katy Welkie, CEO of Primary Children's Hospital.
For the first time in Utah, Intermountain Health doctors have performed an innovative new procedure using radiation therapy typically applied to treat cancer patients to cure a life-threatening irregular heartbeat in a heart patient, paving the way for other Utah heart patients to benefit from this unique treatment. Intermountain Health cardiologists and radiation specialists successfully performed this Utah medical first using stereotactic radiotherapy – an outpatient procedure typically performed on cancer patients – on two patients after other standard cardiac procedures failed to correct their potentially life-threatening heart arrhythmia, known as refractory ventricular tachycardia (VT). This unique collaboration between the Intermountain Health heart & vascular and radiation oncology programs led to the first two ever procedures performed in Utah and provides renewed hope for heart arrhythmia patients who don’t respond to standard cardiac therapy.
Personalized, digital tools are the future — and the now — of hospital and health system marketing, while "the days of general, mass marketing are coming to a close," said Tim Shonsey, vice president of enterprise marketing for Intermountain Health. Becker's reached out to Tim about some of our health system's recent marketing wins, how staffing issues affect his department, and the opportunities that lie ahead.
When the husband of a patient at Intermountain Layton Hospital in Layton, UT needed some help setting up a Valentine’s Day surprise for his wife, the nursing team was happy to help. Mark Flanders brought in flowers and balloons for his wife, Dianne, and asked the nursing staff if they could sneak in and place the items in Dianne’s room while he took her for a walk. Their response was to take his plan and add to it exponentially. Playing the role of Cupid were nurses Cami Groll, Courtnee Bearnson, Kelsie Hair, and Michelle Hoffman. They not only arranged the balloons and flowers, but they also set up facing tables so the couple could dine together, laid out chocolates in the shape of a heart, brought in a fake candle, and wrote a special message on the white board. “While we wouldn’t have chosen the circumstances for the day,” Mark said, “we will, for sure, always remember this Valentine’s Day.”
Colton Edwards, ICU nurse at American Fork Hospital in American Fork, UT, was at the gym at the Pleasant Grove Recreation Center when he saw people gathered around Rick Burgin and decided to go check things out. “They’d put a backpack under his head, and they said he wasn’t breathing,” Colton says. “So, I thought, ‘This isn’t good.’ I checked his pulse and wasn’t getting anything and so, I was like, ‘Well, I guess we’re doing this.’” And he went about giving him CPR, along with DaSheek Akwenye, director of the center at the time, and they stayed at it for about 10 minutes until the EMTs arrived. Rick doesn’t remember any part of this life-saving event. In fact, he doesn’t remember his first few days in the hospital. But others have described to him what happened. “They told me if they didn’t start [CPR] on me right away, I wouldn’t have made it,” he says. The Pleasant Grove City Council later recognized Colton, DaSheek, and the EMT crew that transported Rick with its “Life Saving Award.”
Nursing Virtual Open House: Date: Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm MST Location: Virtual via Microsoft Teams (details on how to join shared via email once you complete the RSVP form) Join us & explore what a Nursing career with Intermountain could offer you! Participants will be able to ask questions & connect with our recruitment team during this live event. We also encourage you to submit your questions before the event via our RSVP form. RSVP for this event here: https://bit.ly/imhrnevent32023 We look forward to connecting with you!
Medical Assistant Virtual Open House: Date: Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 Time: 4pm - 5pm MST Location: Virtual via Microsoft Teams (details on how to join shared via email once you complete the RSVP form) Join us & explore what a Medical Assistant career with Intermountain could offer you! Participants will be able to ask questions & connect with our recruitment team during this live event. We also encourage you to submit your questions before the event via our RSVP form. RSVP for this event here: https://bit.ly/imhmaevent32023 We look forward to connecting with you!
Teach. Treat. Research. Repeat. What to many may seem like an exhausting schedule is actually the fuel that motivates Viet Le, preventive cardiology PA and associate professor of research at the Intermountain Health Heart Institute in Murray, Utah. Through the years, Le’s dedicated approach to his work and quality of his research have not only earned him the respect of his colleagues, but also paved the way for more PAs to join their practice. Thanks in large part to Le, the Heart Institute’s research team is in the process of recruiting another PA to support both clinical and research projects. The level of attention Le devotes to his patients is similar to what he gives to his students. In his role as associate professor at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions, Le spends between 4-8 hours each week teaching a variety of cardiovascular topics to aspiring PAs.
