Article: Intermountain: No. 1 once again.(Intermountain Health Care Inc.)(Brief Article)

Byline: Melanie Evans

Intermountain Health Care's score on this year's IHN 100 barely nudged in 2004, with the system holding onto its first-place ranking for the fourth straight year.

Intermountain, which owns 18 hospitals in Idaho and Utah, has not fallen from Verispan's Top 10 since 2000. This year's scores changed in just two categories.

The Salt Lake City-based health network's financial stability score dropped moderately, perhaps because of capital projects such as the $362 million flagship hospital and medical campus under construction in Murray, Utah, says Greg Poulsen, Intermountain's senior vice president. Its score for "services and access''-the size ...

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