The new Pedersen Patient Tower at Intermountain Healthcare’s Utah Valley Hospital opened for patient care on January 27, marking substantial completion of the $430 million hospital replacement project that began in 2015. With the completion of the 12-story Pedersen Tower, Intermountain Utah Valley Hospital features many all-new areas, including: Emergency Department and Clinical Evaluation Unit Main entrance Imaging Registration Surgery and Interventional Services (operating rooms, cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology (EP) lab, gastroenterology (GI) lab, interventional radiology) Neuro-Shock-Trauma ICU and Cardiovascular ICU All patient rooms (excluding Women’s and Children’s departments) River Rock Café Valley Bistro Gift Shop Chapel A key feature of the Pedersen Tower is the size of its new patient rooms. Each room is nearly double the size of the replaced medical/surgical rooms in the hospital’s East Tower. These new rooms provide plenty of space for caregivers to provide treatment and for family or friends to visit patients in the hospital. The final stage of the replacement project will be tearing down Intermountain Utah Valley Hospital’s existing East Tower to create a healing garden that includes an outdoor eating space for the new River Rock Café. A new laboratory area will also be created, and a pedestrian bridge will be built to access medical clinics across the busy street on which the hospital is located.

• published: 04 Feb 2019
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