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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!
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.”
