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Nurses are everyday heroes. Nurses are on the frontlines of COVID-19 and are central to the continuously evolving medical practices keeping our hospitals and society safe. As this pandemic continues to impact communities around the world, local nurses have shown resilience, given exceptional care, and advocated for patient safety and wellbeing.

Children and youth may face higher levels of anxiety and stress during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Intermountain Healthcare experts offer suggested strategies to help your children during this time, including actions you can take as a parent, actions you can help your children take, and family-oriented activities.

There's a lot of information out there about coronavirus (COVID-19) and not all of it is true. How do you know if what you're seeing online is fact or fiction? Most importantly, get your information from reputable sources like the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Utah Department of Health, and Intermountain Healthcare. Here are 12 recent questions and answers about COVID-19.

Intermountain Healthcare's abdominal transplant program has created new protocols and safety measures to ensure that these lifesaving procedures continue despite of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Intermountain Healthcare has started to use a COVID-19 antibody test offered by ARUP which may help identify previous COVID-19 infections. An antibody blood test will be given to carefully selected Intermountain Healthcare patients and caregivers who meet specific criteria.

The world has changed enormously in the past couple of months. The new COVID-19 virus is disrupting almost everything as stay at home orders, retail and school closures, and social distancing have become part of the new (hopefully temporary) normal.

Just 13 days after receiving Utah's first convalescent plasma transfusion for treatment of COVID-19 at Intermountain Medical Center as part of a new national treatment protocol, Cynthia Lemus, 24, has been discharged from the hospital and is now home with her family.

For many of us, COVID-19 represents a time of significant unpredictability. We may feel more vulnerable than usual, with a heightened sense of physical, emotional, and financial stress—yet greater physical distance from sources of support. Against this backdrop, sales of guns and ammunition have been increasing. In Utah, firearms are the leading method of suicide and 85 percent of gun deaths are suicides.

Intermountain Healthcare is making it easier for people to donate homemade cloth face coverings to help stop the spread of COVID-19 throughout the community.

Utahns are leading a worldwide effort called ProjectProtect to ensure that caregivers who are treating COVID-19 patients have the protection they need to be as safe as possible.