Utah Health Care Information
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For many residents, living in Utah means having a healthy lifestyle. In fact, Utah ranks as the fifth healthiest state in the nation by the United Health Foundation (2004). The study found that Utah leads the nation in low rates of smoking, cancer, and heart disease.

Here are a few examples of Utah Health Care resources you will find in Life in the Valley Magazine:

University of Utah Health System

The University of Utah's School of Medicine and the University Hospital make up the core of the state's public medical complex. The University of Utah Health Sciences Center (UUHSC) conducts leading edge research and care in genetics, cancer treatment, diagnostic imaging, cardiac care, obstetrics and gynecology, newborn intensive care, and burn treatment. [ more .. ]

Huntsman Cancer Institute

Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) is a department of the University of Utah and one of UUHSC's Centers of Excellence. The only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in the Intermountain West, HCI is also part of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. [ more .. ]

Intermountain Health Care

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health Care (IHC) has been ranked America's No. 1 integrated health care system for five of the last six years in a ranking of nearly 600 health care organizations conducted by the Verispan research firm. The IHC system includes 21 hospitals. In 2004, in more than 148,000 visits, IHC hospitals and clinics directly provided more than $67 million in charitable assistance to patients unable to pay. [ more .. ]

Primary Children's Medical Center

IHC's Primary Children's Medical Center has been recognized as one of the top 10 children's hospitals in the nation. It is the only American College of Surgeons-verified Level 1 Trauma Center for Children in its five-state service area (Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, and Montana). Specialties include heart, bone marrow, and liver transplants; pediatric and newborn intensive care; cardiovascular surgery; neurosurgery; and hematology/oncology. [ more .. ]

Intermountain Shriners Hospital

The Intermountain Shriners Hospital for Children provides specialty orthopedic care and rehabilitation to children with diseases and disorders of the bones, muscles, and joints. All care is free to children under 18 years old. There is no cost to patient or family. Since 1925, the Intermountain facility has cared for over 25,000 patients from Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, and Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico. [ more .. ]

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