HealthLeaders Media February 3, 2025
Intermountain Health’s new high-powered collaboration aims to create a network of connected hospitals, sharing services and providers and reducing transfers. Could this be the model to solve access and care barriers?
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Intermountain Health, which spans several rural states, is creating a hub-and-spoke telemedicine network to link its larger hospitals and services with small, rural, critical-access hospitals who need support and access to specialists.
– Through this network, smaller hospitals could care for more of their patients rather than transferring them, thus building up their census and services, capturing more charges and keeping patients in their own communities.
– Chief Strategy Officer Dan Liljenquist says this type of network could be replicated across the country, addressing rural health...
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