Enjoy Jackson Hole's active lifestyle and high quality healthcare.

Teton County's active lifestyle plays a major role in the community's health. The population generally is more physically active than most others across the country. Being near hiking and mountain biking trails in the summer and some of the world's best skiing in the winter, makes exercise more enjoyable. A recent assessment of the valley population's health showed as few as 11 percent of Teton County residents said they had "no leisure time physical activity." The percent is well below the CDC's Healthy People 2010 goal of less than 20 percent.

The same health assessment ranked cancer as the leading cause of death in Teton County, followed by heart disease, unintentional injuries and suicide. Heart disease, often caused in part by a sedentary lifestyle, is the leading cause of death for the rest of the country.

The Jackson Hole area offers many options for health care including the rural-regional St. John's Medical Center, which is the major hub for care in western Wyoming. A person can expect quality primary and emergency care with options for seeing visiting specialists or referrals to larger regional medical centers.

St. John's Medical Center

St. John's, which is operated by the publicly supported Teton County Hospital District, provides services to outlying communities, including many patients from Lincoln and Sublette counties. The existing institution, built in 1991 and updated in the last few years, also includes a long-term care facility called St. John's Living Center.

The hospital provides 24-hour emergency services, along with inpatient and outpatient diagnostic and treatment, home care and community wellness programs. Incoming specialists from the University of Utah see cancer and heart patients, bringing regional expertise to the valley.

For severe emergencies, the hospital provides helicopter and airplane flights to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City.

St. John's medical staff members offer these services: anesthesiology, bariatric surgery, cardiology, pediatric cardiology, telemedicine cardiology, dentistry, dermatology, emergency medicine, family practice, general practice, general and vascular surgery, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, oncology/hematology, ophthalmology, oral surgery, orthopedics, otolaryngology, pathology, pediatrics, perinatology, physiatry, plastic and reconstructive surgery, podiatry, psychiatry - including child and adolescent, psychology, pulmonology and sleep medicine, telemedicine - neurology, radiology and urology.

Jackson's Medical Clinics

The community also has three stand-along medical clinics that offer urgent, primary and family care.  Jackson is also home to dozens of primary care physicians with private offices. Teton Free Clinic provides health care to those without insurance on Tuesday evenings. Rotating physicians provide care.

Teton County Public Health organizes influenza vaccine clinics and has been working toward providing a prenatal education class for pregnant women without access to care. The department is also responsible for sampling pools and spas and other environmental health concerns.

Stats

St. John's total beds: 108
St. John's acute care beds: 48
St. John's primary care beds: 40
St. John's providers: 150
Medical staff physicians: 81
Babies born in 2008: 530
Living Center beds: 60
Admissions per year: 2,990
St. John's employees: 500

Source: St. John's Medical Center Web site, www.tetonhospital.org, CDC