We are better served by health systems that seek to keep people healthy, not wait until they get sick.
If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that there’s a much better way to keep people healthy while reducing stress on our health care system at the same time. This will not only help mitigate risks from any future public health crisis, but also improve the wellbeing and health of people in our community.
Utah’s Intermountain Healthcare, along with our community and health care colleagues, are leading a movement to do just that.
We greatly value and appreciate all our government, community and health care partners that coordinate closely with us to address the pandemic and provide care for our communities. It’s been a statewide team effort and will continue to be a team effort.
Over the last several years, Intermountain has focused more resources on keeping people healthy and out of hospitals. Vaccines have long been a critical part of this strategy. And while that garners most of the immediate headlines, we’ve geared our entire system’s strategy to focus on keeping people and communities well.
All of us can’t wait to get back to some sense of normal. But for the nation’s health system, going back to normal shouldn’t be an option. We must do better. And Intermountain is determined to partner with Utahns and do what we all do best – lead the nation and the world by setting a better example.
Read my full article on the Salt Lake Tribune here: https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2021/03/12/marc-harrison-nation/
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1 年Marc Harrison couldn't agree more. Thanks for your leadership as a physician and admin.
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3 年Healthcare system plays a vital role in helping to create a solutions for problems such as unhealthy lifestyle, safety, job opportunities and so much more. We have to accept healthcare towards a more driven approach through preventing a new virus that could start a pandemic so we can react immediately to prevent that from happening again.
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3 年Indeed! People nowadays show always remember that prevention is better than cure. We should act immediately before its too late.
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3 年Very well said. Prevention will always be better than cure. I'm with you on this. We need to invest in the future by doing better today.
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3 年The reform has to happen in CMS and in the private insurance front. There should be incentives to be proactive. Also I wondered big IHN are not going the self insured way. This will help save a lot of money which can be diverted to. Patient care related expenses.