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This week, we want to take a moment to recognize and thank our hardworking Environmental Services caregivers who keep our care sites clean and safe. These essential workers play a vital role in helping us create a peaceful healing environment for our patients. Thank you for your dedication and commitment, each and every day!
Intermountain Health’s acquisition of Advent Home Health, a leading home health agency in southern Nevada, has been finalized. Advent Home Health is now officially part of Intermountain and operating as Intermountain Health Homecare. “The addition of Advent Home Health underscores our commitment to increasing access to home care for a greater number of individuals – and especially at-risk patients – in southern Nevada,” said Ryan Christensen, Region Vice President of Medical Group Operations for Intermountain Health. “This focus on providing care to patients in the comfort of their own home, particularly those who may have recently been discharged from the hospital or those with long-term health conditions, helps contribute to improved outcomes, fewer hospital readmissions, and continuity of care.” Patients will benefit from the strength of a multi-specialty, integrated network for providers sharing knowledge and best practices to achieve the very best outcomes. They will continue to receive the same level of personalized care they have come to expect from both organizations.
On Vascular Nurses Week, we're happy to recognize the vital role our Vascular Nurses play in helping our patients with vascular disease manage their condition and improve their quality of life. Thank you for advancing patient care through your excellence in evidence-based practice!
This Nursing Professional Development Week, we recognize and celebrate the hard work and dedication of all nurses who constantly strive to improve their skills and knowledge. Your commitment to lifelong learning not only benefits you, but also enhances the quality of care for your patients. Thank you for all you do!
Hear from Jovanka, a Patient Service Coordinator at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, UT, on what she finds most rewarding about her position.
🥳 Happy National Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses Day! 🥳 Today, we celebrate your incredible dedication and compassion as you care for children and families facing cancer and blood disorders. Thank you for your unwavering commitment to improving the lives of your patients, each and every day!
The Health Care Headliners awards recognize some of the best researchers and health care providers in Southern Nevadan medicine, and we're proud to announce that our very own Robert Vadovic, Community-Based Programs and Program Director for the Primary Care APP Fellowship Program, was recognized as one of nine honorees in 2023! Recently, Vadovic had the opportunity to present two lectures at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners’ annual conference where he discussed the topics of mentorship and population health. Vadovic is an advocate for continuing education for providers and is a member of the Intermountain Health Nevada Clinical Education Committee. This committee was responsible for establishing the 90-Day Medical Assistant program, which creates career opportunities in underserved areas while alleviating staffing shortages. Vadovic himself practices what he teaches and is currently pursing his masters in health administration. Local students also have the opportunity to benefit from Vadovic’s guidance and mentorship. He is a community partner with the UNLV School of Nursing. Every year he works with Intermountain Health to provide stethoscopes to incoming nursing students. He also serves as a mentor for UNLV’s senior-level nursing students. Additionally, Vadovic is an adjunct professor and guest lecturer at Touro University and is a former instructor for the Red Cross.
We're proud to be recognized on Forbes' list of America's Best Employers by State in 2023! Forbes partnered with market research firm Statista to survey 70,000 workers at companies (minimum of 500 employees) in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Participants were asked if they would recommend their employer to others, and to evaluate their employer based on working conditions, diversity, compensation packages, potential for development, company image and more. Participants also assessed employers beyond their own. All surveys were anonymous to encourage candor. A special thank you to all of our Intermountain caregivers for helping us fulfill our mission of helping people live the healthiest lives possible each and every day!
In our continuing effort to conserve water and other natural resources, we've made an innovative upgrade of two industrial washing machines at the Intermountain Central Laundry facility in North Salt Lake, saving millions of gallons of water. After a year of use, the new machines, which were set to be replaced, saved more than 11 million gallons of water, and those numbers are only expected to grow in the future. Intermountain’s Central Laundry handles the cleaning of linens from 160 healthcare and hospital facilities stretching from Burley, Idaho, to Delta, Utah. Caregivers clean, fold, and deliver more than 1.3 million pounds of laundry every month. Water conservation is at the forefront of Intermountain’s sustainability efforts in Utah and other Western states, which are working to find innovative ways to deal with record droughts and dwindling water levels in lakes and reservoirs.
Congratulations to our cardiovascular teams at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, UT for being recognized as one of the best hospitals for heart attack survival! Intermountain Medical Center tied with Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic Hospital and New York City-based NYU Langone Hospitals for the lowest death rate for heart attack patients in the country, according to CMS data. Thank you to our caregivers for the outstanding work they do to treat our patients with life-threatening conditions!
