# Source: Intermountain Health (Wikipedia)

**Type:** source
**Status:** Draft
**Confidence:** Low
**Source Type:** reference
**URL:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermountain_Health
**Archive:** https://web.archive.org/web/20260507020153/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermountain_Health
**Archived:** 2026-05-07
**Publisher:** Wikipedia contributors (Wikimedia Foundation)
**Raw:** raw/intermountain-clinical-quality-improvement-sources/2026-08-11-c75d8bf71a72.txt
**Retrieved:** 2026-08-12
**Updated:** 2026-08-11

## Summary

The English Wikipedia article on Intermountain Health as of the captured snapshot. It is encyclopedic background on the health system's size, headquarters, and national reputation — not a source on clinical quality improvement, Brent James, or the Advanced Training Program.

## Useful Claims

- Intermountain Health is a not-for-profit healthcare system headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, with clinics and hospitals across the Intermountain West.
- In 2009, President Barack Obama publicly cited Intermountain Healthcare as an example of a place that "offer[s] high-quality care at a cost below average."
- The captured article does not mention HELP, LDS Hospital's clinical-informatics lineage, Brent James, the Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, or Intermountain's clinical quality-improvement methods.

## Verbatim

> Intermountain Health (formerly Intermountain Healthcare ) is a United States not-for-profit healthcare system with 385 clinics and 33 hospitals in the Intermountain West (primarily Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Utah). The company's headquarters are in Salt Lake City , Utah.

— Lead

> In 2009, Intermountain Health was identified as a healthcare model by President Barack Obama , "We have long known that some places, like the Intermountain Healthcare in Utah..., offer high-quality care at a cost below average."

— History

## Reliability Notes

Wikipedia is a secondary summary, useful for organizational scale and the Obama citation but not for program history or measured outcomes. Still needed for the [Intermountain Clinical Quality Improvement](intermountain-clinical-quality-improvement.md) page: official Intermountain Healthcare Delivery Institute / Advanced Training Program material, archived program descriptions, National Academy or IHI profiles, and peer-reviewed outcome papers (see [Source: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs (Health Affairs, 2011)](intermountain-quality-cost-health-affairs-2011.md) and [Source: Integrated Team-Based Care at Intermountain (JAMA, 2016)](intermountain-team-based-care-jama-2016.md) for what is already sourced).

This source does not establish claims drawn from health-policy journalism.

## Related Pages

- [Intermountain Clinical Quality Improvement](intermountain-clinical-quality-improvement.md)

## Maintainer Notes

- An earlier bundle title named health-policy journalism that the page never cited; do not infer that coverage from this source record.