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We are proud to have 12 Intermountain Health hospitals make Becker's Healthcare's list of the top recommended hospitals in every state in 2024! ✨ Alta View Hospital - Sandy, Utah ✨ Cedar City Hospital - Cedar City, Utah ✨ Good Samaritan Hospital - Lafayette, Colorado ✨ Heber Valley Hospital - Heber City, Utah ✨ Layton Hospital - Layton, Utah ✨ Park City Hospital - Park City, Utah ✨ Saint Joseph Hospital - Denver, Colorado ✨ Spanish Fork Hospital - Spanish Fork, Utah ✨ St. George Regional Hospital - St. George, Utah ✨ The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital (TOSH) - Murray, Utah ✨ St. Vincent Regional Hospital - Billings, Montana ✨ Utah Valley Hospital - Provo, Utah Becker's compiled this list using Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems data from CMS. The hospitals above received five stars for patient recommendations.
Intermountain Health Heart and Vascular – Delta Cardiology has expanded access to specialty medical care for the community by moving to a larger clinic in Delta, Colorado, located across from Delta Health. The new clinic has more than 2,000 square feet, four exam rooms, a procedure room, and office space and is close to many healthcare services in Delta. The new space also accommodates rotating specialists in physical medicine and rehabilitation, who will provide clinic appointments for patients twice a month. “We are proud to offer more access to specialty care for patients in rural areas of Colorado,” said Joya Boyd, executive director for Intermountain Western Colorado Medical Group. “These providers partner with St. Mary’s Regional Hospital which serves a 250-mile radius and is the only system to offer many of these specialized services.”
When Jared Phillips was diagnosed with stage 4 bladder cancer, he was living in his car and it leaked gasoline. When he went to start it one day, the vehicle burned to the ground. Tammy White, oncology nurse navigator at Lutheran Hospital in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, wasn't going to let it be a barrier to his care, so she worked with her mechanic to help secure a vehicle for him.
Our mission of helping people live the healthiest lives possible begins with our caregivers and their families. At Intermountain Health, we are proud to support the personal, work-related, and community well-being needs of our caregivers through a variety of programs and resources, including our Chaplaincy & Spiritual Care Program. Learn more about how our Chaplaincy & Spiritual Care Program helps support our caregivers below.
An obstetrician and gynecologist at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, Terri Kurtz, MD, spent time with pregnant patients who were being treated for substance disorders during her residency. “I just have a soft spot for this population,” Terri said. “They’re really socially complex patients, often suffering from trauma, unsheltered or have been incarcerated. I was drawn to this work.” Following her residency, Kurtz went on to be board certified in addiction medicine. When Intermountain Health applied and was awarded a Utah-funded grant to treat expectant mothers with substance use disorders, she was a natural fit to lead the work. The program is called Peripartum Addiction Treatment and Healing, or PATH, which launched in March 2024 to patients treated in Weber County, Utah. Drug-related deaths are the most common cause of death in the pregnant and postpartum population in Utah. PATH offers a collaborative approach to change the trajectory for pregnant mothers with substance use disorders. A team of Intermountain caregivers work together to treat these patients—caregivers from neonatology, psychiatry, pediatrics, obstetrics & gynecology, and community health. The community health team also established relationships outside Intermountain so patients could receive support from peer support specialists and social workers through a program called Empowered at Roseman University of Health Sciences.
During one of the hottest summers in St. George, Utah, the caregivers at the new Hurricane Emergency Room faced an unexpected challenge. The HVAC system went out. Five words you never want to hear when working in the triple-digit desert heat. As temperatures rose, our caregivers quickly formed a strategic response to ensure the safety and comfort of our patients. With swift coordination, ED, lab, imaging, and emergency response teams mobilized to implement immediate solutions. Portable cooling units were brought in, fans were strategically placed, and hydration stations were set up throughout the facility to help keep everyone cool and hydrated. To further support the staff, cooling vests were distributed, providing an extra measure of safety and relief. Additionally, labs were moved around to promote better airflow and optimize the cooling measures in place. After hearing of the problem, facilities teams immediately jumped to action to get the system back up and running. These crews worked tirelessly throughout the night to fix the air conditioning system. Their hard work and dedication ensured that the HVAC system was restored in less than a day, allowing us to avoid taking any major measures or disrupting patient care. "Our caregivers are truly remarkable," Braydon Bird, the ED manager working through the incident, shared. "Their ability to adapt and respond to such a challenging situation is a testament to their commitment to our patients and each other.”
We are celebrating a major advancement in our sustainability efforts with the opening of the Castle Solar Farm in Huntington, Utah, which will provide power for several of our hospitals, clinics, and other facilities and result in a cost savings of more than $500,000 annually. The 40-megawatt solar farm, which we have contracted to provide 20 megawatts, is located 140 miles southeast of Salt Lake City and will produce enough electricity to offset the total annual use of 17 Intermountain Health facilities, including 9 hospitals. The project will supply us with renewable electricity for the next 20 years. “This is one of the biggest sustainability investments we’ve ever made, and we will be seeing benefits for decades to come,” said Eric Liston, vice president of clinical services for Intermountain. “By making a cleaner environment in the communities that we serve, Intermountain is helping our patients live the healthiest lives possible.”
Congratulations to the following Intermountain Health hospitals for being recognized on Becker's Healthcare's “great community hospitals” list for 2024! - Cedar City Hospital - Cedar City, Utah - Park City Hospital - Park City, Utah - Sevier Valley Hospital - Richfield, Utah The community hospitals honored in this list are focused on bringing clinical and academic excellence, personalized and holistic care, and overall improved health to their communities. The Becker's editorial team selected hospitals for inclusion based on nominations and considered several outside rankings and ratings organizations, including U.S. News & World Report, Healthgrades, CMS, The Leapfrog Group, the National Rural Health Association and The Chartis Center for Rural Health.
You may think you know the ins and outs of a care site — until you see it completely transformed at night. One thing stands out when speaking to night shift caregivers at Intermountain Health: making sure our patients receive the best care possible is a 24/7 operation. While the atmosphere may look a little different, the bonds between caregivers and their dedication to our patients remain strong. #TogetherForTheHealthiestLives
Sometimes a listening ear is enough to make someone’s day. That was the case recently at American Fork Hospital in American Fork, Utah, where two members of the supply chain field logistics team helped a distraught patient recover a lost watch. Inventory coordinators Brad White and Jan Spencer were approached after a patient on the Mother Baby unit reported losing a watch. The brand-new Apple Watch was a gift from her husband, and it had gotten bundled up in the bed linens that had been removed earlier that day. In this case, Jan received a Vocera call from Nicole Maddox, a float pool nurse working in Mother Baby that day. It is a common occurrence, Brad said — an item is misplaced, and a patient or caregiver asks the inventory team to go through the day’s linen to find it. Phones are among the most commonly lost items, along with cardiology sensors and other medical equipment that can easily get wrapped up in a bundle of sheets. The problem with finding such an item is the sheer volume of the dirty linen — often thousands of pounds’ worth at each care site — can make this a needle-in-a-haystack proposition. Learn more about how Brad, Jan, and Nicole took on what started as an impossible task of going through all the linens that ended up as a listening project in the article below.
