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Intermountain Healthcare's work to prevent suicides involving firearms was featured at a recent congressional hearing in Washington, D.C. in September. The U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Subcommittee brought together public health experts from across the country to discuss the consequences and costs of gun violence.

Intermountain Healthcare's Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO), a network of hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare providers who collaborate to improve the quality and experience of care for Medicare patients, saved the Medicare system $2.4 million in 2018, while maintaining top-tier quality of care, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced.

Intermountain Healthcare Heart Institute researchers are launching one of the largest and most ambitious research initiatives ever undertaken in the state of Utah to test a new standard of care to better identify and treat people at risk of having a heart attack -- and to potentially stop it before they ever have one.

Intermountain Healthcare's Community Pharmacies are helping patients take their medication as prescribed in a new way using medication synchronization — which means the pharmacy will coordinate the refill of medications so patients can pick them all up at the same time each month.

Utah Business magazine has named Intermountain Healthcare a 2019 Green Business Award winner for the health system's initiatives to enhance sustainability efforts and numerous green projects.

Determining how far patients with pulmonary disease can walk in six minutes has long been an effective clinical tool to help physicians determine their exercise capacity, as well as to aid in predicting health outcomes and mortality.

As part of Intermountain Healthcare's ongoing efforts to improve access to care, the healthcare system recently collaborated with two community clinics in Salt Lake City, the Maliheh Free Clinic and the Polizzi Clinic, to help patients access services they need — including free prescription drugs and faster lab results.

When caregivers from the Primary Children's Hospital unit at Intermountain Riverton Hospital learned Hailey Winn, a high school senior from West Jordan, Utah, would be missing her homecoming dance because she was in the hospital, they decided to bring the dance to her.

Intermountain Primary Children's Hospital has earned another prestigious honor that sets it apart as one of the nation's premier pediatric centers.

Intermountain Primary Children's Hospital and the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City have expanded their partnership with St. Vincent Healthcare to bring an expert team of pediatric surgeons to the Billings, Montana, hospital.