COVID-19

ST. GEORGE, Utah (KDXU) - Intermountain Healthcare St. George Regional Hospital leaders gave its first DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. Alison Howard has been honored. She's a registered nurse at the St. George Regional Hospital and was nominated by Becky Lloyd, who's husband was the first of Howard's patients to die this year ...

PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (KDXU) - Republican Utah State Representative, Jon Hawkins is proposing a bill that would let anyone who has been infected with COVID-19 be legally able to opt-out of having a vaccine with a note from a physician. Hawkins almost died from COVID-19 this year and says natural immunity should count ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (KDXU/ABC4) - According to Dr. Patrick Carroll, the Medical Director at the Intermountain Healthcare St. George Regional Hospital, caregivers have never seen patients taking over the majority of beds with a single diagnosis in the hospital’s history. A ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC4) - Utah doctors believe the Omicron COVID-19 variant will become the dominant strain of the virus by early next year. An infectious disease specialist at Intermountain Healthcare says the variant is more efficient at causing infections than previous strains ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (KDXU) - Hospitalizations are rising for COVID-19 patients in Southern Utah. In Southwest Utah, 70 people are in the hospital when at the beginning of the month there were just under 40 people hospitalized. David Heaton of the Southwest Utah Public Health says it's possible to see positive case counts rise around the holidays ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (KDXU/ABC4) - The Washington County School District sent an e-mail to parents advising parents to monitor their children’s social media after a national TikTok trend is calling for school shootings last Friday. While there haven’t been any direct threats to the district, officials say they are actively monitoring the situation. Lilly a ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (KDXU/ABC4) - Amid the vaccine mandate pause, leaders from Intermountain Healthcare are reporting 95% of caregivers have complied with the federal government requirement, but those in the 5% against it, tell ABC4 they’re hoping to see a change. A ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (KDXU/ABC4) -  Public health officials are contact tracing and doing disease surveillance after the first Omicron variant case was reported to the Southwest Utah Public Health Department on Friday. An older, fully vaccinated resident in Southwest Utah is quarantining and received monoclonal antibody treatment after testing positive for the Omicron variant. “This was ... Read Mor

Intermountain Healthcare, which cares for hundreds of thousands of patients throughout the Intermountain West – including those with Medicare and Medicaid – will require all of its caregivers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to comply with federal vaccination requirements announced by President Biden in September. The Bid ...

A friend posted this, original author unknown, but it is sooo accurate! Do you agree like I do? ***** I have never wished to live anywhere else. This is my home and I was privileged to be born here. But today I woke up and I realized that everything is changing for the worse ...