The dedication ushers in the most significant enhancement in pediatric care in Utah and the Intermountain West in more than a century, according to the organization.

Gail Miller, a philanthropist and civic/business leader, was at the event with patients, caregivers, the community and Intermountain Health leaders to cut the ribbon on the hospital that bears her name — the Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital, Larry H. & Gail Miller Family Campus. The facility will open for patient care Feb. 12.

“The Larry H. & Gail Miller Family Campus honors the Miller family’s support and vision for children’s health and wellness in the Intermountain West and symbolizes the most significant boost in children’s health care delivery since Primary Children’s Hospital opened 102 years ago,” said Katy Welkie, CEO of Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital and vice president of Intermountain Children’s Health. “As we dedicate this special place of healing, we extend our gratitude to the Miller family and many other families who gave so generously to make it possible.”

The new campus, located at 2250 N. Miller Campus Drive, includes an outpatient center, trauma center, medical office building and a five-story, 66-bed, 486,000-square-foot children’s hospital. Medical staff also will fully integrate with pediatric specialists at University of Utah Health.

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“As Primary Children’s is guided by its philosophy, ‘The Child First and Always,’ our family is guided by the principle to ‘go about doing good until there is too much good in the world,'” Miller said. “Our children have been helped by Primary Children’s in our hour of need, just like so many families before and after us.”

Intermountain’s Primary Promise campaign, announced in January 2020, prompted the Miller family to give $50 million toward the $600 million goal. Vivint Smart Home Inc. co-founder and former CEO Todd Pedersen and his family gave $35 million to the campaign as well.

“Gail is a shining example of the impact of giving back, and what’s possible for our children now and in generations to come,” Pedersen said. “I’m grateful to her and the many others here today who have followed in her footsteps and given generously to this hospital and Primary Promise.”

Rob Allen, president and CEO of Intermountain Health, said community support for the health system for children is building.

“The power of philanthropy is what’s made Primary Children’s the beacon it has become and will continue to fuel endless possibilities for children’s health,” he said.

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Since she was hospitalized at the age of 6, Nellie Mainor said Primary Children’s Hospital is her “home away from home.” Now 13, Mainor spent years receiving treatment for kidney failure.

“I’m so happy that we now have a second Primary Children’s Hospital here in Lehi, where I know kids will get the same great care and love from the doctors and nurses who help them as I did at the Salt Lake Campus,” she said.

Four years ago, Mainor had the chance to meet Miller and made her a beaded necklace for her as a gesture of thanks. Miller says she wears the necklace often and keeps it in her office as a remembrance.

Hospital campus facts

The building (constructed by Jacobsen Construction):

• Weight: 69 million pounds.
• 300-plus professional builders on-site every day during peak construction periods.
• 23,000 cubic yards of concrete used — enough to build a sidewalk 117 miles long, from Lehi to Ogden and back.
• 2 million feet of blue data cabling installed — about 378 miles worth, or about the distance between Salt Lake City and Las Vegas.
• 11,000 gallons of paint used.

What’s in the hospital:

• Inpatient behavioral health unit with comprehensive behavioral health services.
• The state’s first walk-in pediatric behavioral health crisis center.
• 19-bay emergency department and trauma services, including in-room X-rays.
• Neonatal intensive care surgical services.
• Pediatric intensive care services.
• Acute medical and surgical care services.
• Five operating suites.
• Advanced imaging.
• Pediatric subspecialties and diagnostics.

What’s at the outpatient center:

• Three behavioral health programs, including an outpatient clinic, intensive outpatient services and a partial-hospitalization program for higher-acuity patients not needing inpatient care.
• Diagnostic services and technology, including pulmonary function tests, neurological electroencephalogram, electrocardiogram and echocardiogram services for the heart.
• The Safe and Healthy Families program, for patients healing from physical or sexual abuse.
• Full outpatient rehabilitation services, including physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech language pathology, feeding therapy and cardiac rehabilitation.
• An oncology and infusion center with a rooftop patio.

Source: Intermountain Health