🌟 Happy National Patient Account Management Week! 🌟 This week, we celebrate and recognize the hard work and dedication of patient account managers who ensure the smooth operation of healthcare billing and financial services. Your efforts play a crucial role in supporting patients and healthcare providers alike! 💼🏥
Since back in his residency days when the technology was “in its infancy,” family medicine physician Isaac “Ike” Rasmussen, MD, has been an early and enthusiastic adopter of voice recognition software. So when Nuance Healthcare debuted DAX, the artificial intelligence-powered medical note-taking scribe now available to every Intermountain Health care provider who wants it, he was ready. “DAX does not disappoint,” he said. “It’s life changing.”
We are celebrating National Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging Week! This week, we recognize the incredible professionals in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging who use advanced technology to diagnose and treat diseases. Your expertise and dedication play a crucial role in improving patient outcomes and advancing healthcare.
Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital, in partnership with University of Utah Health, is ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the nation’s best children’s hospitals in all 11 pediatric specialties – including four top 25 rankings. Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital is also tied for No. 1 in the nation for its outcomes in neurology and neurosurgery for the third consecutive year. U.S. News & World Report’s Best Children’s Hospitals Rankings ranks the nation’s top 50 children’s hospitals in 11 specialties to help patients, their families, and healthcare providers make informed decisions about their healthcare. U.S. News ranked Intermountain Primary Children’s in the Top 25 in these specialties: • Neurology & Neurosurgery, #10 (with patient outcomes ranked first in the nation) • Cardiology & Heart Surgery, #15 • Nephrology, #22 • Gastroenterology & GI Surgery, #25 Intermountain Primary Children’s is ranked in all other specialties measured for Best Children’s Hospitals, which are: • Behavioral Health • Cancer • Diabetes & Endocrine Disorders • Neonatal Care • Orthopedics • Pulmonology • Urology
It's Pediatric Nurses Week! This week, we celebrate the amazing pediatric nurses who provide compassionate and expert care to our youngest patients. Your dedication, kindness, and skill make a world of difference in the lives of children and their families.
Anne Woodward joined St. Mary's Regional Hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado as a contracted valet attendant. She did this for three years until the valet company reduced her hours. Worried she wouldn’t be able to pay her bills, she started looking for new opportunities. See how her helpful colleagues at St. Mary's encouraged her on a path that would lead to her career development in the field of sleep medicine, and how she utilized Intermountain’s education benefits to pursue education that enabled her to become a polysomnographic technologist in the article below.
Happy National Emergency Nurses Day! Today, we honor the incredible emergency nurses who are always ready to provide life-saving care in the most critical moments. Your expertise, compassion, and dedication make a world of difference for patients and their families.
Read on to learn more about how a chance meeting on “Y Mountain” in Provo, Utah led to a life-saving kidney transplant for a local pastor whose health was deteriorating and was desperately waiting for an organ donor.
Happy National Healthcare Supply Chain Week! This week, we shine a spotlight on the amazing professionals who ensure our healthcare facilities are always prepared. From managing medical supplies to coordinating essential equipment, your behind-the-scenes efforts are crucial for delivering top-notch patient care.
Intermountain Health’s involvement with community program Latinos in Action is teaching skills—and possibly saving lives. Intermountain and Latinos in Action have partnered up to provide students with the opportunity to get trained as Health Screeners. This micro-credential provides a means to develop skills and a knowledge base for addressing social determinants of health, pre-diabetes, and high blood pressure. The course gives students content expertise and necessary skills to successfully perform health screenings, interpret the collected data, and become a health advocate. High school junior Zabrina Garcia took the course (twice!) through Latinos in Action. For an assignment, she screened her grandpa and discovered he had prediabetes. For people like Zabrina’s grandpa, the program offers several potential next steps. It prepared Zabrina to talk to her grandpa about what diabetes could mean for him and refer him to Intermountain resources, including free disease management classes. Zabrina graduated last year—and her grandpa was there to see it. She credits her Latino in Action class with helping her figure out she wants to major in early childhood development this fall at Utah Valley University.
