Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health is opening a surgery center on the campus of the Orthopedic Specialty Hospital in Murray, Utah, that will specialize in outpatient spine, hip and knee procedures.
The facility has eight operating rooms and is the seventh ASC Intermountain has opened in Utah. The health system plans to open eight more ASCs by 2024, Becker’s reports.
“Outpatient same day surgeries are becoming a bigger part of healthcare, especially as we see technology and techniques improve in surgical care,” Mike Clark, executive leader for surgery centers at Intermountain, said in a news release. “By making the process more efficient we can lower the cost which benefits our patients.”
The Intermountain Surgery Center on the TOSH campus will begin performing procedures in mid-July. Read more.
