September 4, 2024- Intermountain Garfield Memorial Hospital is breaking ground to expand a new operating room services. The new operating room center will greatly expand services in the hospital. This marks the first expansion to the hospital in decades. This expansion is important as surgeries have not been able to be done as proper ventilation from anesthesia gas could not happen with the older operating room. The expansion includes new ventilation in the operating room.
Intermountain Health anticipates being able to do elective surgical cases such as hernia repair, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and tonsillectomies to name a few. Keeping care close to home is a goal of Intermountain Health and Intermountain Garfield Memorial Hospital.
An additional operating room is being added to serve as both a gastroenterology suite that can continue to provide screening colonoscopies and EGDs as well as regular surgical cases. The expansion will remodel the hospital’s central processing area, the post anesthesia care unit, and the pharmacy.