Kathy Klotz is executive director of Intermountain Therapy Animals, which runs a nationwide program called R.
He was considered to be in fair condition when they took him to the Intermountain Medical Center.
The 10 regions that posted the strongest growth were in Texas, the Southeast and the Intermountain West.
The good news:After years of an industry in denial, some pioneering doctors and hospital chains, including Intermountain, Ascension Health in St.
Postsurgical infections occur only in 1 in 200 patients at Intermountain versus 1 in 50 nationally, thanks to its on-time prophylactic antibiotic program.
Over the past decade, Texas alone has added 180, 000 mostly high-paying energy-related jobs, Oklahoma another 40, 000, and the Intermountain West well over 30, 000.
Intermountain hired 21 respected doctors part-time and an equal number of full-time nurses to act as peer reviewers for doctors at Intermountain's far-flung operations.
"What we are doing is simple but had never been done because there was no process and no accountability, " says Nelson, Intermountain's chief executive.
Mr. Page, a maintenance technician who lives in Clearfield, Utah, learned that his cumulative exposure from multiple scans he received at Intermountain was 97.3 mSv.
General Electric's health IT unit is so impressed with Intermountain's algorithms that it is opening a center in Utah to adapt them for mass use.
For years fixes at LDS and other Intermountain hospitals were piecemeal.
And that's happening -- Intermountain Health Care does it superbly well.
Since 2000, the Intermountain West's population has grown by 20%, the Third Coast's by 14%, the long-depopulating Great Plains by over 14%, and the Southeast by 13%.
We have long known that some places, like the Intermountain Healthcare in Utah or the Geisinger Health System in rural Pennsylvania, offer high-quality care at costs below average.
Portillo suffered swelling in his brain and had been listed in critical condition, Dr. Shawn Smith said Thursday at the Intermountain Medical Center in the Salt Lake City suburb of Murray.
After I retired from the Park Service as an Assistant Regional Director for External Affairs in the Intermountain Region, I went back to school to learn to be a professional chef.
Ricardo Portillo, 46, has swelling in his brain and his recovery is uncertain as he remains in critical condition, Dr. Shawn Smith said Thursday at the Intermountain Medical Center in the Salt Lake City suburb of Murray.
The first step was to revamp Intermountain's database to better link patient records at its hospitals and clinics to track how well each patient was faring in various measures of care, such as whether heart patients were getting the right drugs.
This includes large swaths of the Great Plains, the Gulf Coast and the Intermountain West, three regions that, as I point out in a recent Manhattan Institute study, have withstood the great recession far better than the rest of the country.
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When data showed that many expectant mothers at its hospitals were being induced two weeks or more early simply because it was more convenient, even though national studies hinted it is safer to wait until 39 weeks, Intermountain clamped down in 2001.
"There is a massive gap between where we are and where we could be, " says Dr. Brent James, a vice president at Intermountain Health Care in Salt Lake City, a big hospital chain that was one of the first to focus on systemic quality improvements.
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