16 Intermountain Health Hospitals Recognized by National Performance Group for Delivering High Quality Patient Care
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16 Intermountain Health Hospitals Recognized by National Performance Group for Delivering High Quality Patient Care

Vizient’s 2025 Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD Quality Leadership Awards given to 16 Intermountain Health hospitals for high-quality clinical and patient care Sixteen Intermountain Health hospitals have received Vizient’s 2025 Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Awards for demonstrating excellence in high-quality clinical and patient care. Three hospitals – Intermountain Health Fillmore Community, Intermountain Health Park City, and Intermountain Health St. George Regional Hospital – were ranked number one in the country within their respective categories. Vizient, a leading health care performance improvement company, ranked the Intermountain hospitals as top health care performers in their annual Quality and Accountability Study, which looked at data from 1,220 hospitals across the United States. The study measured quality of patient care based in six factors: patient safety, mortality, effectiveness, efficiency, patient-centeredness and variation in care. “These awards affirm that the priorities Intermountain is committed...
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Richard Hogan: Halloween is a season of magic — and mayhem, if teens can get away with it
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Richard Hogan: Halloween is a season of magic — and mayhem, if teens can get away with it

I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Halloween. I loved it as a kid, dressing up and going around my estate, knocking on doors, and getting free chocolate; what’s not to like? All the chat in the weeks leading up to it about who you were going to be that year. Michael J Fox, from Back to the FutureMichael Jackson, ET, Indiana Jones, a character from Ghostbustersor an old reliable witch.We ghouls and goblins even ventured into neighbouring estates, driven demented by visions of chocolate.Sometimes, we went too far, and like a scene from Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Seawe had to carefully navigate our way back without being hopped (Cork slang for beaten up and robbed) for our bag of treasure. It required delicate planning.October is a magnificent month. The smoke from chimneys,...
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