September 13, 2021 – Late last week, Intermountain Healthcare (Salt Lake City, UT) announced that it would postpone all non-urgent surgeries and procedures requiring a hospital admission or postoperative inpatient monitoring in our trauma and community hospitals, beginning September 15.
The IDN said that rising COVID-19 cases in Utah have resulted in consistently high volumes in hospital ICUs and acute care units across the system and that it’s teams are overwhelmed and running out of staffed beds for patients.
The system did not provide and end date but said the postponement would “last for several weeks.”
“We will evaluate the situation on an ongoing basis. When feasible, consolidation of remaining surgeries or procedures may take place to help free up surgical teams to be redeployed in our hospitals. Non-urgent surgeries and procedures are those that can be reasonably postponed and do not involve a medical emergency,” Intermountain said in a press release.
The trauma and community hospitals where all non-urgent surgeries and procedures requiring a hospital admission will be postponed are:
- Logan Regional
- McKay-Dee (Ogden)
- Layton
- LDS Hospital (Salt Lake)
- Intermountain Medical Center (Murray)
- Riverton
- Alta View (Sandy)
- Park City
- American Fork
- Utah Valley (Provo)
- Spanish Fork
- Cedar City
- St. George
Rural hospitals, TOSH, and Primary Children’s will continue to do non-urgent surgeries and procedures requiring a hospital admission. These facilities may postpone some cases as needed depending on circumstances.