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March 19 2017 Vol. II • No. 6
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Consolidation of Dixie Regional Medical Center Under Way Terri Draper, Dixie Regional photo
Terri Draper, Dixie Regional photo
A rendering of the Dixie Regional Medical Center following its consolidation, which will increase its footprint from 425,000 sq. ft. (39,483 sq m) to more than 800,000 sq. ft. (74,322 sq m).
By Andrea Watts CEG CORRESPONDENT
Construction is on schedule for the Dixie Regional Medical Center’s $300million consolidation, a merging of its two campuses and expansion on its River Road campus. When the consolidation is finished in December 2018, St. Georgearea residents can access healthcare services in one location, along with an offerOn June 17, 2016, St. George’s Dixie Regional ing of new services that include state-ofMedical Center held a groundbreaking ceremony the-art genomic cancer treatments. for the start of their consolidation project. “We’ve been trying to consolidate
[these two campuses] for more than 10 years now,” said Scott Wyckoff, the strategic planning director of Intermountain Healthcare’s Southwest Region. “We knew it would take a while because of how expensive it would be to fund it, and the downturn in the economy delayed it.” A primary driver for the project is the area’s expected population growth. “We usually plan between the five-to 10-year window, so this consolidation should provide us with services for the community at least through that time frame,” he
added. “There is some shelled space within the project, where we will be able to add in-patient beds or other services as needed. Hopefully, this will take us beyond 10 years, if we’re able to manage the utilization efficiently.” The center’s current footprint is 425,000 sq. ft. (39,483 sq m) on River Road and 200,000 sq. ft. (18,580 sq m) in its downtown offices. The campuses on River Road are currently 1.5 mi. (2.4 km) apart, and patients must travel between buildings for services. Following its consee MEDICAL page 6
UPS Breaks Ground on New $275M Salt Lake City Facility UPS will build a new regional operations hub in Salt Lake City that will be among the largest processing facilities in its global package network. The $275 million project joins other significant capital investments announced over the past 24 months focused on new construction combined with modernization and expansion of top tier UPS hubs in the United States to address planned growth. When completed in late 2018, the new 840,000 sq. ft. facility will process 69,000 packages per hour as a complement to the existing 200,000 sq. ft. operations in town. “This new regional hub is one of our strategic ini-
tiatives to continue to build the long-term future of UPS,” said Mark Wallace, UPS senior vice president of global engineering and sustainability. “Utah is the crossroads to serving the Western U.S., and the stateof-the-art automation technology being deployed will improve performance, increase capacity and create additional flexibility to handle the non-stop growth of e-commerce business in the region.” More than 1,500 jobs will be aided by new technolsee UPS page 10
Officials break ground on $275 million UPS facility in Salt Lake City.