Intermountain Healthcare

Intermountain Healthcare is a not-for-profit healthcare system and is the largest healthcare provider in the Intermountain West of the United States. Intermountain Healthcare provides hospital and other medical services in Utah, Idaho, and Nevada and also offers integrated managed care under the insurance brand "SelectHealth". Intermountain Healthcare is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has some 40,000 employees.[2][3]

Intermountain Healthcare
TypePrivate (Not-for-profit)
IndustryHealthcare
PredecessorThe Health Services Corporation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
FoundedSalt Lake City, Utah, United States (September 24, 1970 (1970-09-24))
FounderPresiding Bishopric of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Headquarters
Salt Lake City, Utah
,
United States
Area served
Utah, Idaho, and Nevada United States
Key people
A. Marc Harrison, MD[1]
(President / CEO)
Gail Miller
(Chairman of the Board)
Websiteintermountainhealthcare.org

History
Intermountain Health Care, Inc. (IHC) logo 1975-2005

Intermountain Healthcare was founded on April 1, 1975 after The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints donated fifteen hospitals as a system to the intermountain community.[4][5]

In 1982, Intermountain Healthcare began providing non-hospital services such as clinics and home healthcare.[6] Four additional hospitals were added from 1982 to 1990. In 1991, Intermountain was recipient of The Healthcare Forum/Witt award.

In the mid-1990s, Intermountain Healthcare restructured into three major groups: hospitals, physicians, and health plans.

In 2002, Intermountain served as the Medical Services Provider for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

In 2005, Intermountain implemented a new logo and slightly changed the spelling of its name from Intermountain Health Care to Intermountain Healthcare. The purpose was to reflect today's more common spelling of "healthcare." Up until this time, Intermountain was well known as "IHC," which was also discontinued with the name change.

In 2006, Intermountain renamed its health insurance plan "SelectHealth" and formalized the separate management of the insurance side of the organization.[7]

Intermountain has sometimes been subject to review by the Utah State Legislature because of the hospital organization's nonprofit mission and because they own 21 of Utah's 60 hospitals. However, proposals by competitors to force Intermountain to sell off either the insurance or hospital components of the organization have been fruitless.

In 2005 the Utah State Legislature hired an outside research company to review Utah's healthcare marketplace. While the independent experts did not address all of the challenges facing Utah's healthcare industry, the researchers did conclude that "considerable evidence exists to support the conclusion that Utah's health-care markets are performing competitively. . . Intervention by the Utah Legislature to promote competition in these markets is not necessary." The six-month study recommended that the Utah legislature refrain from creating more regulations for Utah's healthcare marketplace stating, "Competitive markets are more likely to be harmed than helped by regulatory directives."

In 2009, Intermountain Healthcare was identified as a healthcare model by President Barack Obama, "We have long known that some places, like the Intermountain Healthcare in Utah. . ., offer high-quality care at cost below average."[8] According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, Utah's per capita spending on healthcare is 44 percent below the national average.[8]

Intermountain Healthcare announced that beginning in 2011 it would offer health insurance benefits for its employees' domestic partners.[9]

Intermountain Healthcare operates 24 hospitals in Utah and Idaho.[7] Intermountain also operates 225 clinics, and urgent care facilities in Utah, Idaho, and Nevada, 160 of which are run by physicians as part of the Intermountain Medical Group.[5] In total, Intermountain Healthcare employs about 2,800 physicians and advanced practice providers. Intermountain also provides insurance to nearly one million people in Utah, Idaho, and Nevada. It is also the largest private employer in Utah.[10]

In response to drug shortages and pricing scandals, Intermountain Healthcare and other hospitals formed a generic drug manufacturer, Civica Rx, in 2018 to produce generic drugs that are in short supply or highly priced.[11][12][13][14][15]

In April 2020, Intermountain signed a contract with Banjo, a Utah-based tech company, to provide opiate data, COVID-19 pandemic information, and other event data to the hospitals. The contract's existence was publicized after the CEO's past involvement with the KKK and a drive-by synagogue shooting was revealed.[16]

In October 2020, Intermountain Healthcare and Sanford Health signed an intent to merge.[17] The merger would make Sanford Health a subsidiary of Intermountain Healthcare with the resulting system consisting of 70 hospitals with 89,000 employees.[18] In early December, the merger was postponed indefinitely after the C.E.O. of Sanford Health, Kelby Krabbenhoft was abruptly replaced by Bill Gassen after Krabbenhoft voiced anti-mask sentiments.[19][20]

Hospitals

Intermountain Healthcare operates 23 hospitals in Utah and Idaho,[21] with 2,745 licensed beds, as listed in the table below:

Facility Name City State Licensed Beds Staffed Beds Designation Coordinates
Alta View Hospital Sandy Utah 71 66 40°34′39.2″N 111°51′11.8″W
American Fork Hospital American Fork Utah 109 109 Level IV Trauma Center 40°22′50.1″N 111°46′9.3″W
Bear River Valley Hospital Tremonton Utah 16 16 Level IV Trauma Center 41°43′32.4″N 112°10′52.8″W
Cassia Regional Hospital Burley Idaho 25 25 42°32′3.3″N 113°47′0.5″W
Cedar City Hospital Cedar City Utah 48 48 37°42′0″N 113°3′50.6″W
Delta Community Hospital Delta Utah 18 18 Level II Trauma Center 37°5′59.1″N 113°33′15″W
Fillmore Community Hospital Fillmore Utah 19 19 38°57′9.9″N 112°20′26.4″W
Garfield Memorial Hospital & Clinics Panguitch Utah 14 14 37°49′28.7″N 112°25′40.5″W
Heber Valley Hospital Heber Utah 19 16 40°31′49.2″N 111°24′32.4″W
Intermountain Medical Center Murray Utah 472 472 Level I Trauma Center 40°39′43.2″N 111°53′35.7″W
Intermountain Layton Hospital Layton Utah 43 43 41°03′06.1″N 111°58′14.1″W
LDS Hospital Salt Lake City Utah 250 250 40°46′42.6″N 111°52′50″W
Logan Regional Hospital Logan Utah 146 128 Level III Trauma Center 41°45′26.8″N 111°49′16″W
McKay-Dee Hospital Center Ogden Utah 321 312 Level II Trauma Center 41°11′0.1″N 111°56′56.3″W
Orem Community Hospital Orem Utah 24 18 40°18′11.4″N 111°42′18.6″W
Park City Hospital Park City Utah 37 37 Level IV Trauma Center 40°40′52.8″N 111°27′58.7″W
Primary Children's Hospital Salt Lake City Utah 289 289 Level I Trauma Center 40°46′1.4″N 111°50′18.4″W
Riverton Hospital Riverton Utah 97 88 40°31′20.5″N 111°58′47.7″W
Sanpete Valley Hospital Mt. Pleasant Utah 18 18 39°31′56″N 111°27′40.3″W
Sevier Valley Hospital Richfield Utah 29 24 39°21′1.8″N 112°33′35.2″W
St. George Regional Hospital St. George Utah 284 284 Level II Trauma Center 38°46′53.7″N 112°5′5.6″W
The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital (TOSH) Murray Utah 40 40 40°38′35.3″N 111°52′56.6″W
Utah Valley Hospital Provo Utah 395 359 Level II Trauma Center 40°14′50.7″N 111°40′1.6″W

Former hospitals

Life Flight
Intermountain Healthcare Life Flight logo (since 2005)

Intermountain Life Flight, Intermountain Healthcare's air ambulance unit, provides emergency air transportation as well as non-emergency transport for victims particularly in remote areas, as well as emergency scenes where time is critical. In addition to transport, Life Flight also provides search-and-rescue services to the region. It consists of five helicopters and three fixed-wing aircraft.

Life Flight originally began service in 1972 with just fixed-winged aircraft, but on July 6, 1978, it performed its first patient transport by helicopter, becoming the seventh helicopter (rotor wing) air medical service in the United States.[22]

Intermountain currently operates one Agusta A109K2 helicopter and five Agusta AW109 SP Grand helicopters. The helicopters are based at McKay-Dee Hospital Center in Ogden, Utah Valley Hospital in Provo, Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Uinta Basin Medical Center in Roosevelt and Dixie Regional Medical Center in St. George. Life Flight also operates two Beechcraft B200 King Air twin-turboprop aircraft and one Cessna CJ 4 Jet. One King Air and the CJ4 are based at Life Flight's operations center at the Salt Lake City International Airport, and the third is based at St. George Regional Airport.[23] The helicopters generally service an area 150 mile around their base, but can travel 1,000 miles without refueling. In addition to servicing Utah, Life Flight transports patients from Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Wyoming, and other locations in the Western United States.[24]

Life Flight and its staff are Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS) certified. All of Life Flight's helicopters routinely use night vision goggles (NVG) and its Agusta Grands can operate in high-altitude situations. Life Flight can provide a medical control physician 24/7 so its staff does not have to rely solely on standing orders or protocols, as do many other similar air medical services. Life Flight has six teams:[25]

  • Adult Team
  • Pediatric Team - Life Flight is the only air ambulance service with paramedics and nurses specially trained to care for infants and children (ages 0–21) that operates in the Intermountain West.[26]
  • Neonatal Team - Life Flight performs about 1,200 neonatal transports each year
  • Respiratory Team
  • LVAD Team - Assisting those patients in need of a ventricular assist device
  • Hoist / Search & Rescue Team - Life Flight has performed hoist rescues since 2001; in fact, it is the first and only civilian air ambulance service in the United States that conducts hoist rescues[26] and the only such service in the intermountian region.

See also

References
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  7. Fantin, Linda (April 4, 2006). "IHC Health Plans changing name". The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake City: MediaNews Group. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
  8. Daley, John (September 10, 2009). "Obama singles out Intermountain Healthcare as model system". ksl.com. Salt Lake City: Deseret Digital Media. Archived from the original on September 13, 2009. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
  9. Giauque, Marc (October 21, 2010). "Intermountain Healthcare offers benefits to domestic partners". ksl.com. Salt Lake City: Deseret Digital Media. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
  10. "Jobs & Careers". intermountainhealthcare.org. Intermountain Healthcare. Retrieved October 26, 2014.
  11. Kodjak, Alison (September 6, 2018). "Hospitals Prepare To Launch Their Own Drug Company To Fight High Prices And Shortages". NPR. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  12. Tirell, Meg (September 6, 2018). "Hospitals band together to make drugs to combat shortages and high prices". CNBC. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  13. Kincaid, Ellie (September 6, 2018). "That Nonprofit Generic Firm Has A Name, $100 Million, And A CEO Who Will Work For Free". Forbes. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  14. Johnson, Carolyn (September 6, 2018). "Hospitals are fed up with drug companies, so they're starting their own". Washington Post.
  15. Carlson, Joe (September 5, 2018). "Mayo Clinic, other hospitals launching generic drug maker Civica Rx". Star Tribune. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  16. Leia Larsen. "Banjo had a contract to collect coronavirus data from Intermountain Healthcare". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  17. "Intermountain Healthcare, Sanford Health intend to merge". Sanford Health News. October 26, 2020. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
  18. Ellison, Ayla (October 26, 2020). "Intermountain, Sanford to merge into 70-hospital system". www.beckershospitalreview.com. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
  19. Gamble, Molly (December 5, 2020). "Sanford, Intermountain halt merger talks". www.beckershospitalreview.com. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
  20. "Sanford Health suspends merger talks with Intermountain". ABC News. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
  21. "About Intermountain Healthcare". intermountainhealthcare.org. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
  22. "Intermountain Life Flight - Adult and Children's Critical Care Specialists". HeliMx. October 1, 2012. Archived from the original on January 25, 2013. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
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  25. "Life Flight > About Life Flight > Teams". Intermountain Healthcare. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
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