Primary Children's Medical Center
| Primary Children's Hospital | |
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| Intermountain Healthcare | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States |
| Coordinates | 40°46′16″N 111°50′20″W / 40.77111°N 111.83889°WCoordinates: 40°46′16″N 111°50′20″W / 40.77111°N 111.83889°W |
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| Care system | Intermountain Healthcare |
| Hospital type | Pediatric |
| Affiliated university | University of Utah |
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| Beds | 289 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1922 |
| Links | |
| Website | Official website |
Intermountain Primary Children's Medical Center, or Primary Children's Hospital, is a 289-bed children's hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It is owned by Intermountain Healthcare and operates in affiliation with the University of Utah School of Medicine. The hospital serves the states of Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, yielding an enormous geographic catchment area of approximately 400,000 square miles.
Primary Children's Hospital had its beginnings in the efforts of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to provide adequate medical care to citizens of the Western United States. An LDS organization and building, named "Deseret Hospital", was first founded in 1882 in Salt Lake City, but it closed for financial reasons in 1900. In 1905 another effort resulted in the "Dr. W. H. Groves Hospital" in Salt Lake City, funded largely by a bequest from an English dentist who had migrated to Utah. Its successor, LDS Hospital, also in Salt Lake City, continues today.
In 1911, some LDS Church leaders, including May Anderson and Louie B. Felt, pushed for a separate facility geared to needs of infants and young patients. By 1913 a children's ward had been established at LDS Hospital, and by 1922 a separate facility for children was established in a large Salt Lake City house. It was run by the Primary Association (the auxiliary organization of the LDS Church which deals with teaching and care of children), thus the name. During those years, the LDS Church encouraged its members to donate to the hospital's fund by an annual fundraising effort, "Pennies By The Inch", in which members were asked to donate as many pennies as they were tall (in inches).
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