Intermountain Health

Intermountain Health (formerly Intermountain Healthcare) is a United States not-for-profit healthcare system with 385 clinics and 33 hospitals in the Intermountain West (primarily Utah, Idaho, Nevada). The company's headquarters are in Salt Lake City, Utah. Colorado-based SCL Health and Intermountain Health merged in 2022. The combined system employs more than 58,000 people.

History
Intermountain Health was founded on April 1, 1975, after the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints donated fifteen hospitals, as a system, to what would become Intermountain Health.

In 1982, Intermountain Healthcare began providing non-hospital services such as clinics and home healthcare.

In 2006, Intermountain renamed its health insurance plan "SelectHealth" and formalized the separate management of the insurance side of the organization.

In 2009, Intermountain Healthcare was identified as a healthcare model by President Barack Obama, "We have long known that some places, like the Intermountain Healthcare in Utah. . ., offer high-quality care at a cost below average." According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, Utah's per capita spending on healthcare is 44 percent below the national average.

Intermountain Healthcare announced that beginning in 2011, it would offer health insurance benefits for its employees' domestic partners.

Intermountain Healthcare operates 25 hospitals in Utah and Idaho. Intermountain also operates 225 clinics and urgent care facilities in Utah, Idaho, and Nevada, 160 of which are run by physicians as part of the Intermountain Medical Group. Intermountain Healthcare employs about 2,800 physicians and advanced practice providers. Intermountain also provides insurance to nearly one million people in Utah, Idaho, and Nevada. It is also the largest private employer in Utah.

In response to drug shortages and pricing scandals, Intermountain Healthcare and other hospitals formed a generic drug manufacturer, Civica Rx, in 2018 to produce generic drugs that are in short supply or highly priced.

In early October 2020, Intermountain Healthcare acquired Saltzer Health of Idaho from Tommy Ahlquist following a failed acquisition of Saltzer Health by St. Luke's Boise Medical Center.

In late October 2020, Intermountain Healthcare and Sanford Health signed an intent to merge. The merger would make Sanford Health a subsidiary of Intermountain Healthcare with the resulting system consisting of 70 hospitals with 89,000 employees. In early December, the merger was postponed indefinitely after the C.E.O. of Sanford Health, Kelby Krabbenhoft was abruptly replaced by Bill Gassen after Krabbenhoft voiced anti-mask sentiments. In early 2022, Intermountain Healthcare created program for those suffering from long-haul COVID-19 symptoms.

Intermountain completed a merger with SCL Health on April 1, 2022, expanding the healthcare systems reach into Colorado, Kansas, and Montana.

Intermountain changed its name from Intermountain Healthcare to Intermountain Health in 2023.

As of 2023, Intermountain was building the Lehi Primary Children's hospital at a cost of roughly $335 million. Gail Miller, who formerly chaired Intermountain's board, donated $50 million towards the construction of Lehi Primary Children's Hospital. The campus was named in honor of her family. The hospital plans to start accepting patients in early 2024.

Hospitals
Intermountain Healthcare operates 33 hospitals in Utah, Colorado, Idaho, and Montana, with 4,700 licensed beds, as listed in the table below.

Life Flight


Life Flight originally began service in 1972 with just fixed-winged aircraft, but on July 6, 1978, it performed its first patient transport by helicopter, becoming the seventh helicopter (rotor wing) air medical service in the United States.

Intermountain currently operates one Agusta A109K2 helicopter and five Agusta AW109 SP Grand helicopters. In addition to servicing Utah, Life Flight transports patients from Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Wyoming, and other locations in the Western United States.

Life Flight and its staff are Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS) certified.