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For five times now, Intermountain Cedar City Hospital has been named a 2020 Top 100 Rural & Community Hospital by the national health care analytics group The Chartis Center for Rural Health. Hospitals recognized as a Top 100 facility have one of the 100 highest overall scores among all rural and community hospitals nationally in things like quality, best outcomes (the end result of receiving care), patient satisfaction, and value.

More than 80,000 people have used Intermountain Healthcare's COVID-19 Symptom Checker since it was launched one week ago on March 19.

More and more people are working to eat healthier, but they may not know that eating healthy means eating the right amounts of the right foods. For National Nutrition Month, Intermountain Healthcare wants to help people live the healthiest lives possible and give them resources that can help them in those goals.

Intermountain Sanpete Valley Hospital in Mt. Pleasant, Utah announced it has been named one of the Top 100 Critical Access Hospitals in the United States by The Chartis Center for Rural Health, for the second-year running. Regarded as one of the industry's most significant designations of performance excellence, the annual Top 100 Critical Access Hospitals award is based upon the results of the Hospital Strength INDEX® from iVantage Health Analytics.

If individuals are concerned, they might have the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, Intermountain Healthcare is encouraging them to reach out via technology first rather than making a visit to their doctor's office.

Intermountain Healthcare is taking precautions to keep patients, caregivers, and the community safe with new visitor restriction policies at all of its hospitals, clinics, and InstaCares in Utah and Idaho.

Intermountain Sports Medicine at Cedar City Hospital has donated a portable automated external defibrillator device (AED) to every high school in Iron County.

Intermountain Healthcare transplant surgeons have performed the first-ever liver transplants in Utah with organs preserved using new state-of-the-art technology that keeps the organ cold and healthy as it travels from one site to another for transplant surgery.

It’s National Nutrition Month, and Intermountain Healthcare wants to help people live the healthiest lives possible, including improving one of the easiest things for us to influence, our diet.

In an effort to minimize the use of narcotics after and during surgery, Intermountain Healthcare is the first health system in Utah to establish an opioid-free surgery program for patients seeking alternative pain control methods.