Show When their baby got sick of us don't give much thought to hospitals until we need them ost and their insurance failed them this Utah couple faced financial disaster Intermountain Health Care helped them avoid it “ I Never Thought It Could Happen to Me’ One chilly day in a child fell December and suffered a concus basketball a sion player fractured his foot old a boy fell through a window and cut his wrist a woman slipped on ice and hurt her back and Carla Joos (pronounced “Joace”) in labor with her second child was admitted to a maternity ward It was just another day in the 14-ye- ar Inter-mounta- ’ West and her husband were to discover the hour of need can come at any time - often when we least expect it and even when we think we've insured ourselves against every possible misfortune Alan and Carla Joos are a Clearfield Utah couple making their way in the As Carla Joos world just like the rest of us Alan is a fireman and Carla is a former retail sales employee Two years ago the Jooses were expecting the birth of their second child all They looked forward to this event as that fear and with do hoping joy parents everything would turn out well and that mother and child would be safely delivered of the experience The Jooses did everything right They obtained excellent prenatal medical care Carla followed every precaution to insure her health and the health of the little baby that was growing inside her and both Alan life-givi- and Carla carried medical insurance Then one day several months into the pregnancy a complication developed that finandragged the family into a medical and cial disaster A small leak had occurred in the placenta that supported Carla’s unborn child threatening mother and baby “We felt overwhelmed I wanted my baby to live” In December 1987 Carla Joos gave birth to a little boy Jordan at McKay-De- e Hospital Center in Ogden Utah a hospital in the Intermountain Health Care (IHC) was system of medical facilities Jordan bom about three months prematurely and developed bronchopulmonary dysplasia a debilitating lung disease |