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Intermountain Healthcare today unveiled its plan to build the nation's model health system for children by devoting $500 million or more to pediatric-specific projects, programs, and facilities that serve the Intermountain West – an effort that has inspired a $50 million gift from Utah businesswoman, civic leader, and philanthropist Gail Miller and the Miller family.

Do you know that 65 percent of New Year Resolutions are about exercising?

Local Utah artists are using their talent and teaming with clinicians from the Intermountain Healthcare Heart Institute and the American Heart Association Utah Division to raise awareness about women and their risk of heart disease – the leading killer of women in Utah and the United States.

Intermountain Healthcare's Utah Valley Hospital in Provo has successfully performed its first transcatheter aortic valve replacement procedure (TAVR). TAVR is a minimally-invasive way to replace a diseased heart valve without having a patient undergo major open-heart surgery.

When Sabina Suggs, RN, was a patient in the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Intermountain LDS Hospital 22 years ago, she wasn't allowed to leave her room – which made it very hard to exercise. Her lack of exercise slowed her recovery and impacted her ability to breathe.

The National Quality Forum (NQF) has named Shannon Connor Phillips, MD, MPH, Intermountain Healthcare chief patient experience officer, to its board of directors. A non-profit organization committed to driving measurable health improvements, NQF fosters healthy multistakeholder collaboration to advance quality measures and improvement strategies that lead to better outcomes and greater value in healthcare.

Cold and flu season is upon us, and Utah is seeing the rising tide of seasonal respiratory pathogens, including Respiratory Syncytial Virus, or RSV, according to Intermountain Healthcare providers. Specific to RSV, many parts of the state are experiencing moderate to high levels of activity, according to Intermountain's GermWatch.

While most wake up Christmas morning eager to see what Santa brought them, 56-year-old Curt Harkins of Castleford, Idaho already knew he was getting married in his hospital room.

Intermountain Moroni Clinic is one of 17 clinics nationwide – and the only clinic in Utah and four western states – to be recognized for their efforts to help a large percentage of their patients effectively control their high blood pressure.

Babies born around the holidays at Intermountain Medical Center are going home wrapped in hand sewn stockings thanks to an extra special delivery from hospital volunteers.