COMMUNITY IMPACT

The Big Picture Intermountain Health St. George Regional Hospital has been named the No. 1 hospital in Utah in the 2026–27 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings. The recognition places St. George Regional among the top-performing hospitals in the state...

The Big Picture The University of Utah has opened the new Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, a $215 million facility designed to shape the next era of medical education, research, and patient care in Utah and across the Mountain West. The eight-story,...

The Big Picture Alzheimer's disease is driven by the buildup of a toxic protein called Tau, which kills brain cells as it spreads. For years, researchers have known that as toxic Tau moves into new regions of the brain, symptoms grow worse — but exactly how Tau...

Why it matters: When hospitals commit to clear quality measures and act on data, patient outcomes improve dramatically. The big picture: U.S. News and World Report recognized 26 Intermountain Health hospitals as high performing in maternity care, a jump driven by...

The Big Picture Intermountain Health oncologists say a new targeted therapy for advanced pancreatic cancer could be a “game changer” for patients facing one of the deadliest and most difficult-to-treat cancers. The investigational oral drug, daraxonrasib, is designed...