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Lehi's new hospital, Mountain Point Medical Center, remains under construction on Feb. 28, 2015. The new medical center is a 185,000 square foot, 2-story IASIS Healthcare hospital and will have 40 beds while including an emergency department, four operating rooms, and a 3-story medical office building. There is a future expansion area of 74,000 square feet. GRANT HINDSLEY, Daily Herald

Grant Hindsley, Daily Herald

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Lehi's new hospital, Mountain Point Medical Center, remains under construction on Feb. 28, 2015. The new medical center is a 185,000 square foot, 2-story IASIS Healthcare hospital and will have 40 beds while including an emergency department, four operating rooms, and a 3-story medical office building. There is a future expansion area of 74,000 square feet. GRANT HINDSLEY, Daily Herald

Grant Hindsley, Daily Herald

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LEHI — IASIS Healthcare Corporation will open its first phase of a new regional hospital, Mountain Point Medical, in June.

“We have two floors available for vertical expansion which gives us the ability to accommodate 150 beds at full build out,” said Cara Jackson, IASIS Healthcare vice president of corporate communications. 

Located in north Lehi and accessed from the I-15 freeway at 2100 North Street or SR-92 interchanges onto East Frontage Road, the medical center will have easy access, said Angela Evatz, IASIS Healthcare director of business, marketing and operations.

The frontage road is being widened to accommodate emergency services and the added traffic to the hospital. The emergency care center location on the hospital’s 23-acre medical campus is estimated to save up to seven minutes in ambulance transport time for a patient.

Several Utah County physician groups are supporting the facility: Alpine Pediatrics, Central Utah Clinic, Peak ENT, Premier Family, Utah Surgical Associates, Valley Obstetrics & Gynecology as well as other independent providers currently practicing in the community like certified nurse midwives, nurse practitioners, physician assistants.

As well as an emergency care department, there will be an intensive care unit, imaging, cardiac cath lab, surgical suites, and labor and delivery.

“Most insurance plans will be welcome,” Evatz said.

At total build-out, there are plans for a second medical center on site. IASIS owns and operates hospitals in high growth urban and suburban markets and has 15 acute care hospitals and one behavioral health hospital in the U.S.

The corporation hosted its unique groundbreaking ceremony with north Utah County city dignitaries breaking dirt in individual large pots containing living evergreen trees on Feb. 21, 2014 at Thanksgiving Point.

“This is a really exciting day for us,” said Carl Whitmer, IASIS president and CEO, at the ceremony. 

IASIS Healthcare Western Division President Ed Lamb said the planted trees will have an identifying marker for each city at the ribbon cutting ceremony in June.

In 1925, the year he served as president of the Utah County Medical Society, Dr. Fred Worlton purchased the former Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank Building and remodeled the upper floor into a hospital. During 1928, more than 150 patients received medical or surgical treatment in the Lehi Hospital.

The following year Dr. Worlton remodeled the building to fully utilize the ground floor. When completed the 14-bed hospital boasted, in addition to an operating room, a bathroom, reception room and kitchen. Worlton died 3 years later.

Dr. Elmo Eddington purchased the hospital from Worlton’s widow and desired an upgrading of the hospital. Federal grants required that a building be owned by a municipality before awarding WPA funds. Accordingly, Dr. Eddington deeded the Lehi Hospital to the city in 1937, after which a $14,000 grant allowed the facility to be remodeled into an 18-bed hospital.

The 1961 hospital board consisting of Alice Broadbent, Elmo Christofferson, Calvin Swenson, and Harold Ellison met with the city council in March to report that the state department of health would close the hospital in the near future because of its outdated facilities. Though the hospital lost its license in 1965, it remained open until March 1, 1967, when its last patient, Mrs. James King was transported to University Hospital by ambulance.

Excerpt of Lehi Hospital by Richard Van Wagoner found in the Lehi Historical Archives at lehi-ut.gov under “Discover.”