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Intermountain Healthcare is reaching out to one of the state's most vulnerable populations during the COVID-19 pandemic – people who are experiencing homelessness.

Utah's first transfusion of plasma has been done by Intermountain Healthcare as part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's newly launched National Expanded Access Treatment Protocol, which allows use of convalescent plasma donated by patients who have recovered from COVID-19 to be processed and given to patients with the virus.

Intermountain Primary Children's Hospital caregivers and patient families are "chalking the walk" to spread messages of hope and love during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Intermountain Sevier Valley Hospital has been marked as one of the Top 20 rural hospitals in the country. NRHA, the National Rural Health Association, awarded this distinction. This comes shortly after The Chartis Center for Rural Health named Intermountain Sevier Valley Hospital a Top 100 Rural & Community Hospital for the second straight year. The Chartis and NRHA designations are regarded widely as indicators of excellent care. The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services also recently rated Sevier Valley a 5-star hospital.

To help meet the growing demand for personal protective equipment, Intermountain Healthcare switched its printing production and is manufacturing tens of thousands of protective face shields for Utah caregivers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Intermountain Healthcare oncologist Mark A. Lewis, MD, is learning to get creative to help his patients who are anxious and worried not only about the coronavirus outbreak but having to navigate these uncertain times after a cancer diagnosis.

Researchers from Intermountain Healthcare and University of Utah Health have begun two vital clinical COVID-19 trials to test two drugs – hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and azithromycin for safety and effectiveness to treat patients with the novel coronavirus.

Intermountain Healthcare is ramping up COVID-19 curbside testing at 20 community sites throughout Utah that will enable the collection of up to 1,500 samples and more than 1,000 test results to be processed per day.

Intermountain Healthcare recently achieved the highest level, Stage 7 validation for healthcare analytics from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) on the Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity (AMAM). This pinnacle achievement recognizes the healthcare system's sophisticated technological capability to use data to improve patient health outcomes, clinical provider decision making and business operations.