The Pulmonology Program at Intermountain Medical Center was ranked as the 48th top pulmonary program in the nation for outstanding pulmonary and respiratory care.
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Pulmonology Program at Intermountain Medical Center was ranked as the 48th top pulmonary program in the nation for outstanding pulmonary and respiratory care.
The commitment of our clinicians to our patients is at the center of all we do — including our research and teaching.”
— Denitza Blagev, MD, Intermountain Medical Center
SALT LAKE CITY , UT, USA , August 10, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- For the first time in its 10-year-history, Intermountain Medical Center is ranked by U.S. News as one of America’s Best Hospitals in the publication’s 28th annual rankings of the nation’s top healthcare facilities.
The Pulmonology Program at Intermountain Medical Center was ranked as the 48th top pulmonary program in the nation for outstanding pulmonary and respiratory care. Intermountain Medical Center was also ranked for providing high-performing services for diabetes and endocrinology care, nephrology care and urology care.
“This is great recognition for our team of physicians and caregivers in the Pulmonary Program and throughout the Intermountain Medical Center campus,” says Intermountain Medical Center administrator Joe Mott. “This is further recognition of our commitment to providing the very best care possible to our patients.”
The U.S. News rankings and ratings compare more than 4,500 medical centers nationwide in 25 specialties, procedures and conditions. The U.S. News methodologies in most areas of care are based largely on objective measures such as risk-adjusted survival and readmission rates, volume, technology, patient experience, patient safety, quality of nursing, and reputation.
"We provide data that patients can use to help them make informed decisions about where to receive surgical or medical care,” said Ben Harder, managing editor and chief of health analysis at U.S. News. “We know outcomes matter most, which is why U.S. News is committed to publishing as much data as possible on patient outcomes.”
What makes Intermountain Medical Center’s Pulmonology service so effective? The hospital's pulmonology program is known for its singular focus on excellent patient care – treating some of the most complex pulmonary patients, often with other complications – combined with a research program that focuses on clinical outcomes.
The service’s clinical expertise is bolstered by a robust research focus, a patient-centered culture, and collaboration with Intermountain Medical Center’s other high-acuity services, including cardiology, thrombosis, thoracic surgery, oncology, and radiology.
As a result, the hospital’s high-acuity patients are evaluated thoroughly and quickly by multi-disciplinary teams who focus on the overall care of each patient, not just on a singular disease.
“Often, our patients have had a long road of symptoms and diagnoses before they see us, and our teamwork with our multidisciplinary colleagues ensures we treat each patient with the best current evidence, and more importantly, with the most empathy,” says Denitza Blagev, MD, pulmonologist and director of the Schmidt Chest Clinic at Intermountain Medical Center.
Other strengths of the Intermountain Medical Center Pulmonary Service:
> The service’s staff includes nationally respected leaders in clinical outcomes research who often collaborate with colleagues in hospitals around the nation.
> The service has implemented digital pneumonia protocols designed to quickly identify patients with pneumonia and treat them with the best evidence-based guidelines.
> The integrated lung cancer screening program (a collaborative effort between oncology, radiology, and pulmonary) boasts excellent outcomes and excellent efficiency by following protocols to ensure that only patients who’d benefit from lung cancer screening are screened and counseled appropriately.
> The program is a leader in pulmonary hypertension diagnosis and treatment.
> The service sponsors a sub-specialized diffuse parenchymal lung disease program, in which clinicians excel at diagnosing and treating a variety of interstitial lung diseases.
> The service’s chronic obstructive pulmonary disease program offers some of the best outcome rates in the nation.
> Intermountain Medical Center’s pulmonary function testing laboratory is a national leader in clinical quality and has developed electronic decision-support tools to enhance the diagnoses of COPD patients.
> The Pulmonology team is constantly developing new ways to improve and deliver care. Innovations include advances in telehealth visits and remote patient monitoring and research on how air quality affects patients, whether indoor air quality monitors help reduce symptoms for high-risk patients during inversions, and using electronic medical records to identify and treat high-risk patients.
“The commitment of our clinicians to our patients is at the center of all we do — including our research and teaching,” says Dr. Blagev. “We help train medical students, residents, and pulmonary and critical care fellows from the University of Utah so we can share our expertise to train the next generation of physicians.”
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SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, USA, August 10, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Intermountain Healthcare has announced their 2017 Supplier Award winners. The awards recognize four outstanding suppliers for their work to cooperatively improve and innovate within four categories.
The winners are:
Collaboration MVP Award — Stryker
Cost, Quality, Outcomes Award — GE Healthcare
Corporate Social Responsibility Award — Sterilmed
Supply Chain Excellence Award — Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices
Intermountain evaluates key suppliers who help make a difference in delivering cost effective care and quality outcomes for the approximately one million patients Intermountain serves each year. “We’re excited to recognize these suppliers that have demonstrated their commitment to helping our patients and community live the healthiest lives possible. Our award criteria this year focused on collaboration, patient outcomes, positive social and environmental change, and efficiency and innovation,” says Kreg Koford, Intermountain’s AVP for Strategic Sourcing and Solutions.
The award categories, and their winners, were chosen with input from Intermountain business units and Supply Chain Organization leaders. Each award had specific selection criteria and each winning supplier was selected based on current and historical performance and had a unique reason for winning.
• The Collaboration MVP Award focused on capability and a willingness to collaborate. In addition, the criteria covered a supplier’s ability to be proactive, responsive, and transparent while creating value opportunities. Stryker proved to be the winner by executing and implementing four collaborative projects that increased overall value.
• The Cost, Quality, Outcomes Award weighed patient outcomes and the ability to create shared value. GE Healthcare accomplished this task of decreasing cost, maintaining quality, and improving outcomes, which resulted in millions of dollars of value. They attained this task by collaborating on image equipment planning cycles, providing available training resources, and significantly improving the speed of acquiring images.
• The Corporate Social Responsibility Award judged a supplier’s ability to demonstrate positive social and environmental change in our communities. Sterilmed, part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, proved to be the winner by integrating a sustainable purchasing process for reprocessed medical devices. They also demonstrated environmental stewardship, governance, empowerment, and diversity within four other projects.
• The Supply Chain Excellence Award evaluated suppliers who demonstrated excellence in supply chain efficiency and innovation. Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies was named the winner by demonstrating a collaborative approach for standardizing products and processes. They also engaged in cooperative programs that reduced stock outs, increased standardization, reduced lead times, and optimized perfect order efforts
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“Suppliers who demonstrate value to the organization, and most importantly, our patients, are critical to healthcare’s long-term success. We value our relationships with our suppliers and their patient-centered approach. Outstanding suppliers help Intermountain provide extraordinary care and superior service at an affordable cost,” adds Koford.
Intermountain Healthcare is a Utah-based not-for-profit system of 22 hospitals, 180 clinics, a Medical Group with about 1,500 employed physicians and advanced practitioners, a health plans division called SelectHealth, and other medical services. Intermountain is widely recognized as a leader in transforming healthcare through high quality and sustainable costs. For more information about Intermountain, visit www.intermountainhealthcare.org.
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Connecting Trails’ shares stories from experiences in national parks, God’s presence in nature
Sean Jungo announces publication of new spiritual growth book
MORRISTOWN, N.J. – In “Connecting Trails: The Window of Life” (published by WestBow Press), author and naturalist Sean Jungo invites readers to join him on his own journey through hundreds of miles of trails in the national park system, which reveals God’s presence in nature.
The book follows Jungo’s trek, showing a different lesson that provides “a small piece of the greater puzzle” in each story. The collection of spiritual reflections is drawn from 20 years of travel across western North America and speaks to a man’s pilgrimage to know himself and God through nature.
Saying that nature provides the setting for great reflections into God’s intentions for peoples’ lives, Jungo encourages the reader to reflect on the pathway God has provided. From the high peaks of Colorado to thousand-year old Native American ruins in Northern New Mexico, the book takes the reader through some of the most remote and rugged terrain in the United States.
“I want my readers to take a step back and reexamine their relationship with God,” Jungo says. “I hope this book allows readers to refocus on what really matters; and I hope the clarity of their new experiences in listening, observing and internalizing God's living light brighten all those around them.”
“Connecting Trails”
By Sean Jungo
Hardcover | 6 x 9 in | 328 pages | ISBN 9781512794038
Softcover | 6 x 9 in | 328 pages | ISBN 9781512794014
E-Book | 328 pages | ISBN 9781512794021
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
About the Author
Sean Jungo is an adventurer, naturalist, philosopher and avid photographer. He is the owner of Glacier Ridge Photography, which specializes in landscape portraits of the great American West. While he is not traveling, Jungo enjoys spending time with family and friends, hiking, country music concerts, arts festivals and chili cook-offs. More information is available at: www.connectingtrails.weebly.com.
WestBow Press is a strategic supported self-publishing alliance between HarperCollins Christian Publishing and Author Solutions, LLC — the world leader in supported self-publishing. Titles published through WestBow Press are evaluated for sales potential and considered for publication through Thomas Nelson and Zondervan. For more information, visit www.westbowpress.com or call (866)-928-1240. For WestBow Press news, click “Like” at www.facebook.com/WestBowPress and follow @westbowpress on Twitter.
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Layton Hills Mall has selected its 3rd Annual KIDZ BIZ participants!
Doubling in size from 2016
Layton, UT (August 8, 2017) Layton Hills Mall has selected over 35 businesses and 90 youth participants to take part in the 3rd Annual KIDZ BIZ event. KIDZ BIZ is a program that encourage young entrepreneurs between the ages of 6 and 17 to learn about business practices, sales, and financial responsibility while running their own company for one day in the Layton Hills Mall. In addition, prizes are awarded for various categories and participants keep all the money they earn to invest back into their business venture.
The KIDZ BIZ market day will be held Saturday, August 19, 2017 from 12p to 5p on the lower level Dillard’s wing. This is the perfect time for children to test out their concepts, sales skills and see if their business model will work. The event will conclude with an awards ceremony at 5:30pm.
“Seeing the event go from 40 participants to 90 in one year is amazing!” says Danielle Bendinelli, Layton Hills Mall Marketing Director. “KIDZ BIZ businesses must have minimal to no parental involvement, so the best part is the youth are the creative force behind their own concepts. From handmade items to providing a personal services or even authoring their own book, the program offers an outlet to a wide variety or interests.”
The KIDZ BIZ market day is open to all ages and the public is encouraged to attend and shop to show support for these young, local entrepreneurs. A big thanks to the following community partners: America First Credit Union, Davis Hospital and Medical Center, Ed Kenley Ford, Utah Educational Savings Plan, SeaQuest Interactive Aquarium, Silly Rabbit Shirts, Weber State University, Dartside: Indoor Nerf Gun Arena & Davis Education Foundation.
A full list of participating businesses can be find at shoplaytonhills.com/connect:
http://www.shoplaytonhills.com/event/bltcb8697a584ae7532
Or on our Facebook Events Page
https://www.facebook.com/pg/LaytonHillsMall/events/?ref=page_internal
About Layton Hills Mall:
Layton Hills Mall is owned and managed by CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. of Chattanooga, Tennessee, (NYSE:CBL). Layton Hills Mall features more than 100 great specialty shops and is anchored by JCPenney, SeaQuest Interactive Aquarium and Dick’s Sporting Goods. Additional information can be found at ShopLaytonHills.com.
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United Way of Salt Lake Celebrates Volunteerism with Annual Stuff the Bus Project and Inaugural Celebration Breakfast
Salt Lake City – This school year, thousands of children will lack the supplies they need to enter the classroom ready to learn. United Way of Salt Lake will host its Annual Stuff the Bus Project with more than 800 volunteers. Over the past few months, companies, community groups and individuals have been holding school supply drives, and on Saturday, August 12, volunteers will stuff thousands of backpacks with the donated school supplies. The event will kick off with an inaugural celebration breakfast, an appearance by RSL’s mascot Leo the Lion, and other festivities.
What: Stuff the Bus: The general public is invited to help fill backpacks with school supplies for 10,000 low-income kids. Volunteers will receive a free breakfast and chance to win prizes at this public project that will take place at the Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy.
Where: Rio Tinto Stadium (America First Pavilion)
9256 S. State St.
Sandy, Utah
When: Saturday, August 12, 2017
9:30 a.m. – Noon
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United Way of Salt Lake is working to advance the education, income, and health of our neighborhoods and communities to ensure that every child succeeds, every step of the way, from cradle to career. We invite everyone to be a part of the change. You can give, you can advocate, and you can volunteer. That’s what it means to LIVE UNITED. Join the conversation by visiting our blog at uwslhub.org, or find out more at uw.org.
