Growth: Health Care
Hospital construction beginning this summer
Construction is anticipated to begin on a new Intermountain Healthcare hospital in Spanish Fork this summer, with completion expected two years later. The new facility, to be named Spanish Fork Hospital, will be built on a 45-acre site located on Canyon Creek Parkway north of the Spanish Fork Walmart Supercenter. The 240,000-square-foot building will include traditional hospital services as well as space for physicians’ offices. “We actually have signed a contract with Oakland Construction to do the construction of the building and we’re just finishing up design work now, and we hope to break ground in the summer of 2018,” said Jason Wilson, administrator and CEO of Intermountain Healthcare’s American Fork Hospital. The groundbreaking will most likely take place in July or August and a two-year construction period is anticipated, meaning the hospital would open in the summer of 2020. Wilson, a native of Spanish Fork who attended Spanish Fork High School, has a lot of experience working with hospitals similar in size and type to the new Spanish Fork facility, including serving as administrator of the Cedar City Hospital for 10 years. When plans began moving forward
for the Spanish Fork Hospital, Intermountain Healthcare asked Wilson to oversee development of the project. He’s now been involved with the project for about a year, working with city staff on items such as permits and roads while also cultivating relationships with doctors in the south county area. Spanish Fork has been without a hospital for nearly Jason Wilson 50 years. The Hughes Memorial Hospital was operated at 200 N. 200 West, Spanish Fork, by Dr. Joseph Hughes and later his son Dr. Preston Hughes, but it was closed in 1969. “We see the Spanish Fork/Mapleton area as probably the biggest need for a hospital in the county right now,” Wilson said. Southern Utah County already has many excellent doctors and health care providers serving area residents,
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