Intermountain Healthcare donates $248K to help fight hepatitis A outbreak

SALT LAKE CITY — Intermountain Healthcare has donated nearly a quarter of a million dollars to the Utah Department of Health to help purchase almost 9,000 hepatitis A vaccine doses to administer as the state fights an outbreak of the virus.
Since May, 110 outbreak-related cases of hepatitis A have been reported in the state, said Utah Health Department spokesman Tom Hudachko.
That includes 23 new cases since Nov. 28, when Salt Lake County and state health officials held a press conference