Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson poses for a photo in her office at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 19, 2021. Henderson understands firsthand the need to confront the ongoing effects of COVID-19. Since being hospitalized for the deadly virus last August, she has experienced lingering respiratory issues as well as developing agonizing back problems that required multiple surgeries.
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As most Utahns look forward to COVID-19 no longer dominating their daily lives, those who’ve had the deadly virus and continue to struggle with debilitating and difficult-to-treat long-term symptoms are hoping they won’t be forgotten.
SALT LAKE CITY In an effort to make health care more accessible and holistic across the western region, the University of Utah School of Medicine announced this week it is partnering with Intermountain Healthcare to create a new medical education program to launch later this year.
The new program will represent a seismic shift in the future of health, said Dr. Michael L. Good, the dean of the University of Utah School of Medicine and interim president of the U.
According to Good, it s estimated that 90% of health care expenditures are spent on chronic conditions such as mental health conditions or heart disease, and a large number of those conditions and complications can be addressed through prevention.
Intermountain and U of U announce partnership for new, community focused physician training program Eli Kirshbaum | Apr 8, 2021
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In a “first of its kind” initiative, Intermountain Healthcare has partnered with the University of Utah (U of U) to implement a new medical education program. This program will teach medical school students about population health and how to preemptively treat communities and keep them healthy.
The partnership is part of Intermountain’s Population Health initiative, which focuses on preventive care. Rather than solely focusing on in-the-moment, immediate health needs of patients, this initiative aims to identify causes of illnesses early on in order to prevent community members from becoming sick.
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Last year, after the novelty of being confined to our homes wore off and the panic over the world ending abated a little, many people started playing a game, which has endured as the months rolled on and the sun withdrew and then crept out again. What s the first thing you ll do when all this is over?
Some dream of sitting in a cold cinema and hearing the audience hush as the film starts. Others want to brush up against strangers in the flushed throng of a gig. Some people want to go to the airport without a ticket, others to sit with a pint outside their local pub. If that means side-eyeing the people occupying their favourite seat until they leave, then things really are back to normal.
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Intermountain Healthcare is working on a transformative model for the future of healthcare called population health that focuses on keeping people in communities healthy and pre-emptively addressing cause of illnesses, rather than just treating people when they are sick.
As an important additional step, Intermountain is partnering with the University of Utah to jointly develop a new medical educational program the first of its kind in the United States to be used to train the next generation of physicians in population health, which focuses on keeping people and communities healthy and addresses factors that can lead to illness and injury in an effort to prevent those from occurring.