INVEST 2025

Hospitals, Providers
bike hub wheel spoke

Intermountain Health Exec: Hub-and-Spoke Models Could Save Rural Healthcare

Dan Liljenquist, Intermountain Health’s chief strategy officer, said that more large health systems should employ a hub-and-spoke model to ensure that rural providers can thrive. Under this model, large health systems partner with rural hospitals — with the rural “spoke” hospitals gaining access to the larger “hub” health system’s technology, staff, medication discounts and more.