Intermountain Hospital Administrator Francis Gibson told the Daily Herald June 23 that economic pressures like lower patient volumes from the COVID-19 pandemic and the current recession are factors that led to the delay. He added that design changes and uncertainty around a second wave of COVID-19 also postponed the hospital’s opening.
The six-month delay of the Spanish Fork Hospital’s opening won’t change the size of the project. The $150 million build is still slated to be a 30-bed hospital with a focus on women’s medical and surgical services. Construction will be mostly complete by October.
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