Public Invited To Tour New Intermountain Utah Valley Hospital Pedersen Tower Before Patient Care Begins

A community open house will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday at Utah Valley, 1034 North 500 West, Provo. Participants are asked to park on the south side of the hospital campus, which is best accessed from 800 North in Provo.

Media representatives are invited to attend the official ribbon-cutting ceremony that begins at 6 p.m. in a large tent that will be set up south of the new Pedersen Tower. Live stand-ups from the evening event will be allowed.

Those who attend the open house will be able to tour the new facility, enjoy giveaways and refreshments, and participate in health screenings for adults.

New areas in the Pedersen Tower:

• Emergency Department
• Main entrance
• Imaging
• Registration
• Surgery & Interventional Services (operating rooms, cath & EP labs, gastroenterology (GI) lab, interventional radiology)
• Neuro-Shock-Trauma ICU and Cardiovascular ICU
• All patient rooms excluding Women’s and Children’s departments
• River Rock Café
• Valley Bistro
• Gift Shop
• Chapel

A key feature of the Pedersen Tower is the size of its new patient rooms. Each room is nearly double the size of the existing medical/surgical rooms in the hospital’s East Tower. These new rooms provide plenty of space for caregivers to provide treatment and for family or friends to visit patients in the hospital.

The opening of the Pedersen Tower represents substantial completion of the Hospital Replacement Project that began in 2015. Goals of the Replacement Project were:

• Replace aging buildings with new seismically sound facilities
• Improve patient care by using evidence-based design concepts that support better treatment outcomes
• Relocate complimentary service lines within the hospital to be more closely aligned or combined

Respond to the current and future healthcare needs of Utah County, which is one of the fastest-growing counties in the country

Philanthropic support of the Hospital Replacement Project has reached the highest levels in Utah Valley's history. Major donors to the project include Todd and Andie Pedersen, Blake and Nancy Roney, the Sorenson Legacy Foundation, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Kahlert Foundation, Steven and Kalleen Lund, Revere Health, The Ashton Family Foundation, Alex and Debra Dunn, Jacobsen Construction Company, and Nu Skin Enterprises.

A total of 725 philanthropic gifts supported the project, including 26 gifts that were more than $100,000 and 60 that ranged from $10,000 to $99,999. These generous donations came from community members as well as physicians and other members of the hospital caregiving team.

Patients will move into the Pedersen Tower on January 27. Anyone who comes to the Emergency Department that day will be treated in the new location, which can be accessed on the south side of the new tower rather than along 300 West in Provo. 

The final stage of the Replacement Project will be tearing down Utah Valley Hospital’s existing East Tower to create a healing garden that includes an outdoor eating space for the new River Rock Café. A new Laboratory area will also be created and a pedestrian bridge will be built across 500 West.  

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For more information, please contact Janet Frank at 801.357.7766 or janet.frank@imail.org.

High Resolution Photos:

• Tower 1
• Ambulance Bay 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Exam Room 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Patient Rooms  1, 2, 3, 4
• Rehabilitation  1, 2
• Decontamination  1, 2, 3, 4