Quick acting nurses at Intermountain Health Logan Regional Hospital help treat newborn with heart rhythm disorder with help from telehealth physicians
(PRUnderground) July 17th, 2025
Rachel Gold’s newborn son Soren was just about two weeks old when she became concerned that he wasn’t breastfeeding well, wasn’t producing enough wet diapers, and slept through feedings. He also looked pale and his lips were a little purple.
“I took him in to see our pediatrician and by that time his breathing was labored and the pediatrician recommended I take baby Soren immediately to the emergency department at a hospital with a neonatal ICU to be evaluated,” said Rachel.
The pediatrician alerted the Intermountain Health Logan Regional Hospital emergency department to let them know we were coming.
Wendy Rushton, NNP, a neonatal nurse practitioner and newborn nurse Missy Ibuyan, RN at Intermountain Health Logan Regional Hospital jumped into action and met baby Soren in the emergency room and then immediately connected with a pediatric hospitalist through telehealth.
“When Baby Soren arrived, he was really in distress. Not only was his breathing labored, but his heart was beating at an abnormally high rate of 260 beats per minute,” said Ibuyan.
“In less than five minutes, we had a doctor who is a telehealth pediatric hospitalist on video providing real-time expert guidance,” said Rushton.
“Those telehealth consultations allow the physician to see the global perspective of what’s going on with the patient. They help us make sure we’re not missing anything,” said Ibuyan.
“We wondered if we might have to transport the baby by air to Intermountain Health Primary Children’s Hospital,” said Rushton.
“It turned out little baby Soren has a condition called supra ventricular tachycardia or SVT where his heart has an extra electrical pathway between the atrium and the ventricle,” said Soren’s mom, Rachel Gold
By relying on their training in newborn resuscitation and a telehealth consultation from a pediatric hospitalist and support from an emergency room physician, the nurses were able resuscitate and stabilize baby Soren and keep him at Intermountain Health Logan Regional Hospital.
“Wendy and I have worked together for 18 years at Logan Regional Hospital. We’ve been through a lot of scary scenarios, and we’ve been instructors in teaching newborn resuscitation training to other nurses on our team,” said Ibuyan. “As they say, this wasn’t our first rodeo,” she quipped.
“We practice newborn resuscitation frequently and do training drills to prepare for these emergency situations,” said Rushton.
Wendy has been a nurse for 40 years and became a neonatal nurse practitioner seven years ago, which means she’s done additional training to become an advanced practice provider in neonatology.
Missy has been a nurse for 20 years. She began her career as a medical assistant and then became a licensed practical nurse and then a registered nurse.
Baby Soren stayed in the neonatal ICU at Intermountain Health Logan Regional Hospital for about a week.
“We did daily consultations with a Primary Children’s Hospital cardiologist as the baby’s heart kept going back into a bad rhythm,” said Rushton.
Gold said being able to receive care close to home helped her as she was still recovering from childbirth. It also made things easier for their young family, which includes two older children, Octavian age five and Thea, age two.
“We live five minutes from Logan Regional Hospital. The care we received was phenomenal. Those nurses were amazing,” said Gold.
After almost a week at Intermountain Health Logan Regional Hospital, baby Soren was transferred to the pediatric cardiac care unit at Intermountain Health Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City with the hope that a different medication would help. He was there for about a week.
Rachel said they were able to have a remote monitoring device for Soren at home after that, which gave her extra reassurance. Soren is about three months old now and is on medication for his heart condition and doing well.
“Now, most of the time Soren is a normal baby, but his heart might randomly go into an SVT rhythm, which can be problematic if you don’t know what you’re looking for. Since Soren got on the right dose of his medication and we received great training from the nurses and doctors on what to do is he goes back into SVT, we’re more hopeful about his prognosis and hope he ends up growing out of it,” said Rachel
Almost 18,000 nurses work at Intermountain Health in six states, and more than 12,000 of those nurses work in Utah. Whether they’re at the hospital bedside, assisting in the operating room or at a surgery center, seeing patients in a clinic or over telehealth, managing nursing units or working in leadership or directing specialized clinical programs, making home visits or doing research, nurses can be found just about everywhere at Intermountain Health.
There are job openings at Intermountain Health for nurses to work full time, part time or even on a PRN or “as needed” basis. Intermountain offers free education benefits for eligible employees who want to further their training to become a registered nurse, or earn their bachelor’s or master’s degree in nursing.
About Intermountain Health
Headquartered in Utah with locations in six states and additional operations across the western U.S., Intermountain Health is a nonprofit system of 33 hospitals, over 400 clinics, medical groups with some 4,600 employed physicians and advanced care providers, a health plans division called Select Health with more than one million members, and other health services. Helping people live the healthiest lives possible, Intermountain is committed to improving community health and is widely recognized as a leader in transforming healthcare by using evidence-based best practices to consistently deliver high-quality outcomes at sustainable costs. For up-to-date information and announcements, please see the Intermountain Health newsroom at https://news.intermountainhealth.org/.
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