LDS Hospital

LDS Hospital (formerly Deseret Hospital) is a general urban hospital and surgical center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The hospital was originally owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), but is now owned and operated by Intermountain Healthcare (IHC). LDS Hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission. The hospital has 262 inpatient beds.^[1]

History[]

An LDS Church organization and building, named "Deseret Hospital", was first founded in 1882 in Salt Lake City, Utah. From 1882 to 1890, the Relief Society and the Retrenchment Society, the predecessor of the LDS Church's modern Young Women organization, jointly operated Deseret Hospital, which was the ideological first ancestor of LDS Hospital, but it closed for financial reasons in 1900.

It was not until 1905 that an institution that can be connected by direct history to the present hospital was formed. This was the Dr. W. H. Groves LDS Hospital, which was largely funded through a bequest of W. H. Groves, a Latter-Day Saint dentist who had emigrated to Utah from Nottingham, England. The hospital, a five-story complex with eighty beds, was equipped in 1905 with up-to-date medical equipment and innovations, including an elevator and a nurse-calling system. From 1913 to 1922, the hospital had a children's ward which was later separated and became the predecessor of Primary Children's Medical Center.

LDS Hospital is the successor of the Dr. W. H. Groves LDS Hospital. In 1974, the LDS Church decided to divest itself of the ownership and operation of several of its non-church-related activities, including health-care facilities. As a result, in 1975 its hospitals were turned over to the not-for-profit IHC group, which still owns and operates both LDS Hospital and Primary Children's Hospital (formerly Primary Children's Medical Center).

The current building, in place of the original 1905 hospital, opened in 1984.^[2]