As our broadened practice of health care extends beyond treating the sick to include a focus on behavioral factors, providers have discovered concepts of population health through their firsthand experience treating patients.
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University of Utah School of Medicine students, residents, physician assistants and community members listen as medical student Madison Kieffer speaks to reporters about the list of demands that they delivered to medical school administrators in accordance with the mission of White Coats for Black Lives in Salt Lake City on Friday, June 12, 2020.
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Our two organizations, Intermountain Healthcare and University of Utah Health, formed a partnership to shape a new model of care designed specifically to keep people in a state of good health. It will focus on preventing illnesses, rather than just treating people when they become sick.
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(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dr. Edward Redd with the Bear River Health Department is filmed by two filmakers with Penna Powers ad agency May 11, 2021 for public service announcements to encourage Utahns to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Dr. Edward Redd, physician and soon-to-be regional TV pitchman, doesn’t want to tell people they have to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Community leaders have high hopes that a planned mental health crisis center in South Salt Lake will help prevent future hospitalizations.
University of Utah Health is officially backing plans for the Huntsman Mental Health Receiving Center to be located near the jail and homeless center in South Salt Lake
University officials said the goal is to have the center open for patients by the Fall of 2023, which would give individuals experiencing a mental health crisis an option aside from the emergency room or a jail cell.
Salt Lake County and the Huntsman family are donating the nine-acre plot at 3300 S. and between 900 W. and 1000 W.