Riverton Hospital to Open New Outpatient Center on Feb. 24 to Meet Healthcare Needs of Growing Communities in Southwest Salt Lake Valley

The grand opening of the new Riverton Hospital Outpatient Services Center, 12600 South and 3741 West, is Wednesday, Feb. 24, from 4 to 7 p.m.  A short program and ribbon-cutting ceremony will start at 4 p.m., with tours to follow. MEDIA ARE INVITED.

In 2014, first graders from Rose Creek Elementary School donned hats and shovels for the groundbreaking of the new center at Riverton Hospital, their next door neighbor. A year and a half later, the same students — who are now 2^nd graders — will participate in the center’s ribbon-cutting event.

The new Outpatient Services Center was designed to help Riverton Hospital better meet the needs of the growing communities in the southwest corner of the Salt Lake Valley.

“For the past few years, the cities in our area have been ranked among the fastest growing cities in the nation,” said Blair Kent, Riverton Hospital’s CEO. “We’re growing and expanding our services in order to meet the current and future needs of the residents in our community. Our new Outpatient Services Center will allow us to offer the type of care the community expects from us. This new addition will last well into the future as we as a hospital and community continue to grow.”

The new, four-story, 120,000-square foot center will house several additional services at Riverton Hospital, including rheumatology, pulmonology, senior services, ophthalmology and podiatry.

The new center will also allow current services such as the lab, endoscopy, and physical therapy to expand. With the expansion, Primary Children’s Rehabilitation Center will be moving from its Sandy location to a new, larger space at Riverton Hospital. New services within Primary Children’s Rehabilitation Center include occupational therapy, physical therapy and speech therapy.

Another change on the Riverton Hospital campus: New radiation therapy and infusion services departments will open in the Outpatient Services Building. They’ll serve as the anchor for expanding Intermountain Healthcare’s cancer program to the Riverton Hospital campus. The departments will have a state-of-the-art Varian TrueBeam linear accelerator, which will bring leading edge cancer care to the area, providing image-guided radiotherapy and radiosurgery.

“By expanding our cancer services, we’ll be able to participate in all sub-specialized tumor conferences and provide the most technically advanced cancer care available to those patients in the Riverton area,” said Madani Salem, regional director of radiation therapy for Intermountain Healthcare.

In addition to the short program and ribbon cutting at the open house on Feb. 24, there will be tours of the new center’s clinics plus activities and games for the whole family. The event will have a “Frozen” theme, including sleigh rides, an “indoor” ice-skating rink, and entertainment by vocalist Conn Curran.