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Health care companies in Utah are innovative and culture driven.
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tah’s legacy as a health care innovator includes life-changing technology like the world’s first artificial heart and the first hearing aid. With a past like the Beehive State’s, it should come as no surprise that Utah companies are on the frontlines of the health care industry’s latest evolution: company culture. Utah’s health care ranks No. 10 on U.S. News and World Report’s Best States 2018 data. Like the health care industry, people in Utah are exceptionally healthy as well. In 2017, the United Health Foundation ranked Utah No. 1 in the lowest prevalence of smoking, strokes,
cancer deaths, heart attacks, high blood pressure and heart disease. To bolster the state’s healthy bioscience industry, Talent Ready Utah offers students an opportunity to jumpstart careers in medical device manufacturing and laboratory science through its Medical Innovations Pathway. Students that complete the pathways program earn a certificate and are eligible for entrylevel positions with industry partners like BD Medical, BioFire, Biomerics, Edwards Lifesciences, Fresenius, GE Healthcare, Merit Medical, Nelson Laboratories, Sorenson Forensics, Stryker and Varex Imaging. More than 1,000 life
