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Episode 41: The future of Homecare at Intermountain Oct 26, 2018

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Intermountain Healthcare announces Joel Macey, a long-time leader at the organization, as the Executive Director for Homecare and Hospice. In this podcast, Mark Briesacher, MD, chief physician officer, Rebekah Couper-Noles, associate chief nursing officer and Jeff McNally, MD, executive medical director for Homecare and Hospice, talk with Joel about the future of Homecare and related services for our patients and communities. Homecare has recently added new service lines including palliative care and post-acute care, and teams are working to improve these services, to integrate more seamlessly together and with other areas of the organization as well as thinking about healthcare and homecare in a new paradigm to find even better ways to care for patients in the home.

Episode 40: Helping seniors with daily living and health support, 24/7 Oct 26, 2018

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This year Intermountain launched a life care model for seniors designed to keep them healthy and living fuller, more independent lives while significantly reducing emergency room and hospital visits. In this podcast, Bradley Nielsen, life care manager for Homespire, talks about the benefits of the program to patients and the roles of his team with Mark Briesacher, MD, Intermountain chief physician officer and Jeff McNally, MD, executive medical director for Homecare and Hospice. Homespire is a resource for family medicine and internal medicine providers, geriatricians and other specialists, family members and loved ones to connect seniors with a service that treats the whole person, addresses care gaps and provides non-medical services essential to daily living.

Thanks for Asking: Healthcare Career Paths Oct 26, 2018

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How do you go from being a resident and a fellow at Primary Children's Hospital to the CEO of one of the top healthcare systems in the nation? And what advice do you have for someone just embarking on a career in healthcare? That's what Marshall Wallace, a critical care tech at Primary Children's, asked CEO Marc Harrison, MD, in this week's Thanks for Asking podcast.

Thanks for Asking: Expanding OB Care in Rural Areas Oct 18, 2018

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How are we addressing the need for expanded obstetric services and choices in rural facilities? For example, at Park City Hospital many patients are traveling to Salt Lake or Utah counties for the OB care. How can we help women stay in their community for care? That's what Mackenzie Visentin, RN, a labor and delivery nurse at Park City Hospital, asked CEO Marc Harrison, MD, in this week's Thanks for Asking podcast.

Episode 38: Aligning Clinician Compensation with Value-Based Care Oct 16, 2018

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In this episode, Mark Briesacher, MD, Chief Physician Executive sits down with Karyn Springer, MD, Intermountain Medical Group Board Chair to talk about the changes the Medical Group is making to physician and advanced practice clinician compensation. Forty percent of the patients cared for at Intermountain, as of 2018, are in a risk- or value-based model, which requires different workflows, different types of teams and different areas of focus. Compensating providers in ways that support both fee-for-service and value-based care models will champion their initiatives around clinical quality, safety, experience and outcomes as well as help prevent provider burnout.

Discussing the social determinants of health Oct 16, 2018

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Mikelle Moore, Intermountain's senior vice president for Community Health, joined Karen DeSalvo, M.D., MPH, with the University of Texas at Austin's Dell Medical School to discuss how Intermountain Healthcare is working to have a positive impact on the social determinants of health for our community members. Dr. DeSalvo and Mikelle also discusses Mikelle's career in healthcare and why she moved from hospital administration to community health.

Thanks for Asking: Where Will Care Be Provided in the Future? Oct 12, 2018

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With healthcare moving more and more toward providing services in homes, online, and outside our facilities, what does that mean for Homecare and the outpatient and inpatient services we provide? That's the question Tim Jensen, an occupational therapist for Homecare in Cache and Box Elder counties, asked CEO Marc Harrison, MD, in this week's Thanks for Asking podcast.

Thanks for Asking: Standardizing Products to Cut Costs Oct 05, 2018

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How can we better standardize the products providers and facilities use across the system to ensure we're the best products at the lowest appropriate costs? And how can we address outliers who resist moving to standardized products? Those are the questions Trent Gee, a sourcing manager from Supply Chain, asked CEO Marc Harrison, MD, in this week's Thanks for Asking podcast.

Enlisting caregivers in improving health in our community Oct 04, 2018

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Intermountain is planning our goals for 2019, including a goal to enlist our caregivers in improving health in the community. Intermountain's leadership team is asking caregivers to vote for which wellness and community health-related area they'd like to focus on. Mikelle Moore, senior vice president of Community Health, and Heather Brace, senior vice president and chief people officer, explain in this discussion.

Thanks for Asking: Intermountain compared to Kaiser Sep 28, 2018

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How does Intermountain Healthcare compare to Kaiser Permanente? That's the question Kendal Hunter, a dietary technician at Utah Valley Hospital, ask CEO Dr. Marc Harrison on this week's Thanks for Asking podcast. "I'm from the San Francisco Bay area, so I grew up going to Kaiser hospitals, and I've been with Intermountain for 20 years now," Kendal says. "I was wondering if you could do a comparison between the two."

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