It has been 30 years since the start of the Hold On To Dear Life campaign started at Intermountain Primary Children s Hospital. This year brought unique challenges and yet the hospital was able to give more than 4,200 free life-saving devices out to the community.
Here are four ways the Hold On To Dear Life program has helped the communities of Utah and Idaho the past three decades, and how injury prevention efforts will continue in the years to come.
30 years of safety
The Hold On To Dear Life campaign started in 1990 at Primary Children s Hospital to educate the community on how to keep children safe. The first campaign focused on the importance of seat belt use and how to properly use child restraints in the car. Then it expanded to include additional injury prevention. In the last few years, it has been broadened to include mental wellness, the award-winning, Spot the Tot program, and other injury prevention topics such as water safety and window falls.
A little cowboy was saved by a groundbreaking new therapy Author: Jim Mertens Updated: 6:30 PM CST January 8, 2021
SALT LAKE CITY It s amazing Cinch Wright is alive.
The little boy got cutting edge gene therapy that replaced disease-causing genes with healthy ones.
It can knock out a gene that s not working right, or add a new gene to the body to help fight disease. He loves the dog and the horses and the cows, says Alex Wight about his son.
No doubt about it, Cinch Wight is going to be a cowboy just like his dad.
To date, the FDA has approved four types of gene therapy including one that was given approval just in time for Cinch.
The UTAH Cardiac Transplant Program celebrates 35 years of giving the gift of life
The UTAH Cardiac Transplant Program celebrates 35 years of giving the gift of life.
Posted at 1:29 PM, Dec 31, 2020
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1,549.
Thatâs the number of live-saving heart transplants the UTAH (Utah Affiliated Transplant Hospitals) Cardiac Transplant Program â a unique collaborative transplant group from Intermountain Healthcare (intermountain Medical Center and Intermountain Primary Childrenâs Hospital), University of Utah Health, and the George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center Medical Center in Salt Lake City â have performed in the past 35 years.
Patients, family members, clinicians, other caregivers, and community leaders are celebrating the 35
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