Community Nursing Services and U of U Health are leading a fundamental shift in health care. Now, providers offer safe, effective post-acute care from the comfort of a patient’s home.
Black Americans and individuals of Hispanic or Latinx heritage, who are at risk of heart disease and stroke, are less likely to be prescribed statins than Asian and White Americans.
During Sundance Film Festival 2022, University of Utah Health premiered "Meet Me Where I Am," a documentary short film that follows the journey of 61-year-old Adolphus Nickleberry, a patient at...
This fall, 11 students from the incoming Class of 2025 at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine were selected to join the first cohort of the Intermountain Healthcare University...
The Medical Group partners to provide care in ways patients are coming to expect. These partnerships come under the banner of innovation—but it isn’t innovation for innovation’s sake. Like true...
The Utah Department of Health recognized U of U Health's community clinics earlier this month for their efforts to treat & care for patients with high blood pressure.
The Community Physician Group and the Department of Family & Preventive Medicine have decreased emergency department use, managed 77% of crisis interventions without higher level of care, and tripled the...
According to the noble mission statements of academic medical centers, we are committed to “healing humankind,” “advancing human health,” “alleviating suffering,” and “improving the quality of life” of the community...
Why some small Utah providers took the risk of participating in Medicare pilot payment models: Because it is the wave of the future and they are committed to success.
For decades we have been facing a health care crisis. Payment imbalances, lagging educational reform, physician shortages, you name it, the health care landscape has been ignoring the inevitable for...
The idea of viewing population health through the lens of a hospital isn't accurate anymore. There are many resources to bear when you consider keeping populations healthy.
What kind of change is coming to health care? Will AMC's close in the coming years? In the face of constrained payments, how will different models thrive? Mike Magill, MD...
