Driggs, Idaho-based Teton Valley Health Care partnered with Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare to provide select oncology care at Teton Valley Hospital in Driggs, according to KIDK3.
After partnering, the Idaho hospital will offer expanded cancer care services such as chemo infusion therapies, wound care and personalized treatment programs.
"[Intermountain Healthcare] has an established program in providing telehealth oncology services and TVHC will partner with their multidisciplinary teams to offer cancer care in Teton Valley," Keith Gnagey, Teton Valley Health Care's CEO, told KIDK3. "Our patients will have real-time visits, care planning and follow-up exams with some of the best oncologists in the nation, all without having to travel outside the valley."
The new oncology services will be available to patients in October 2017.