Overview

• U.S. News ranked the hospital in all 11 pediatric specialties for the second consecutive year.
• Six programs made the Top 25: cardiology and heart surgery (No. 12), neurology and neurosurgery (16), nephrology (18), gastroenterology and GI surgery (20), orthopedics (22), urology (22).
• The hospital also placed in the Top 50 in the remaining specialties, including behavioral health (Top 50), cancer (37), diabetes and endocrinology (37), neonatology (39), and pulmonology and lung surgery (42).
• Intermountain and University of Utah Health leaders attribute the gains to recruiting leading physicians, specialized care teams, and measurable improvements that lifted rankings in 7 of 11 specialties.
• Access to pediatric behavioral health care expanded with the August opening of a 24/7 emergency and walk-in center in Taylorsville.