SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 18, 2025 (Gephardt Daily) — The University of Utah on Tuesday announced a $75 million gift from the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation to establish a new 800,000-square-foot state-of-the-art hospital and medical campus in West Valley City.
The gift will enable the construction of the university’s first off-campus hospital in its 175-year history and its largest multi-specialty health clinic, a news release from the U of U says.
“This expansion is a vital step in increasing health care access across Salt Lake County, ensuring that the more than 725,000 residents living west of I-15 have greater access to hospital care, where currently only one in 10 hospital beds serve the area,” the release says…