Chicago-based CommonSpirit and Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health have formed a clinical partnership that will give patients at five CommonSpirit hospitals access to physicians and providers at the academic health system.
The partnership will also expand University of Utah Health's capacity to provide care for patients along the Wasatch Front, a major metropolitan region in north-central Utah. The five hospitals included in the alliance include:
- CommonSpirit Holy Cross Hospital-Davis (Layton)
- CommonSpirit Holy Cross Hospital-Jordan Valley (West Jordan)
- CommonSpirit Holy Cross Hospital-Jordan Valley West (West Jordan)
- CommonSpirit Holy Cross Hospital-Mountain Point (Lehi)
- CommonSpirit Holy Cross Hospital-Salt Lake (Salt Lake City)
CommonSpirit acquired the five hospitals from Dallas-based Steward Health Care in May 2023.
"We look forward to welcoming University of Utah Health providers to our hospitals and working alongside them as we improve population health and build a path to more accessible care along the Wasatch Front and beyond," Andrew Gaasch, president of the CommonSpirit Mountain Region, said in a Nov. 20 news release.
University of Utah Health includes five hospitals, a medical group with 2,000 providers and more than 26,000 employees, according to its website. It is the only academic health system in Utah and provides care for people across Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and much of Nevada.
"We keep the patient at the center of everything we do and are proud to partner with CommonSpirits exceptional teams and hospitals to extend access for people in our communities and region," said Michael Good, MD, CEO of University of Utah Health and Senior Vice President for Health Sciences.
CommonSpirit is a 137-hospital system with care sites across 24 states and five operating regions. Its Mountain Region, which spans Utah, Colorado and Kansas, has more than 16,000 employees, including 1,000 physicians and other providers.