Intermountain Children's Health restructures to unify Pediatrics

By Natalie Freeze, Intermountain Children’s Health Marketing

Intermountain Children’s Health is dedicated to building the nation’s model health system for children, making sure the 2.5 million children in our service areas can receive the right care at the right place and right time. This requires unity and coordination across our services and care sites.

That’s why we’re excited to announce Children’s Health — and identified pediatric services from across the enterprise — is restructuring to meet the needs of our patients, communities, clinicians and caregivers.

Children’s Health is becoming an enterprise shared service within Intermountain Health. This will allow a new Children’s Health leadership team to oversee coordinated strategy development, clinical and operational best practices and standardization, and quality measures for pediatric and neonatal services across the Intermountain system.

Aligned pediatric services

As part of this change, Children’s Health will work with a full spectrum of pediatric services across Intermountain. Children and babies will receive care that’s measurably consistent, evidence based and aligned with national standards. Services that will work together within the Children’s Health portfolio include:

Children’s Health leadership will help unify care

Katy Welkie, vice president of Children’s Health, will lead this new, integrated pediatric portfolio. “Intermountain already provides excellent pediatric care, but we know we’re better together,” Welkie said. “By intentionally unifying our services, we’ll offer higher-quality, more affordable, consistent care for the kids we serve. Our clinicians and caregivers will also benefit from shared best practices and standardized procedures.” 

The new, dedicated Children’s Health leadership team will partner with enterprise, region, and facility leaders to develop unifying, systemwide pediatric strategies and clinical practices that will encourage widespread financial sustainability, and most importantly, improved patient outcomes and experiences for those we serve.

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