Message from the Senior Vice President
In the intermountain area, we have the reputation for providing high-quality, life-saving medical care. If there is a burn victim or a newborn in distress in the region, the call for help will most likely come to our hospital. From organ transplants to artificial joints, people in surrounding states know this is where they will get the finest quality and effort available.
The people of Utah are vitally important to University Health Care. With Utah's larger families and the ability to genetically study multiple generations, the best of the best find their way to the University to do genetic research that is simply unparalleled. Were it not for the people and the vastness of Utah, our doctors and medical students would not receive the variety of training they do.
Like its urban counterparts, University Hospital sees its share of gunshot wounds and drug overdoses. But how many big city training centers have to deal with a rancher injured by a combine, a skier with a severe compound fracture, or a hiker who has fallen two hundred feet?
Utah is a better place because of what we do, and we are better at what we do because of Utah and its people. It is a message we must take every opportunity to spread-to Utah, the Intermountain West, and the world.
