CommonSpirit Health & UofU Health announce new clinical partnership

CommonSpirit Health and University of Utah Health have announced a clinical alliance that will give patients at CommonSpirit’s five Wasatch Front hospitals access to the physicians and providers of University of Utah Health. CommonSpirit will also extend the University of Utah Health’s capacity to provide care to more people along the Wasatch Front through its clinical facilities.

“CommonSpirit and University of Utah Health are driven to innovate how and where healing can happen,” the institutions said in a joint statement.

The Northern Utah hospitals owned by CommonSpirit are Davis Hospital and Medical Center in Layton, Jordan Valley Medical Center in West Jordan, Jordan Valley Medical Center-West Valley Campus, Mountain Point Medical Center in Lehi and Salt Lake Regional Medical Center in Salt Lake City. All five of the hospitals carry the Holy Cross name.

“At CommonSpirit, our mission calls us to relentlessly innovate so we can provide the highest standard of compassionate care to every person, including the most vulnerable,” said Andrew Gaasch, president of the CommonSpirit Mountain Region, which includes the five Utah hospitals. “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.”

With more than 26,000 faculty and staff, University of Utah Health is the only academic health care system in the state of Utah and provides patient care for the people of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and much of Nevada. It is also the training ground for many of Utah’s physicians, nurses, pharmacists, therapists and other health care professionals.

CommonSpirit has care sites across 24 states and five operating regions — with its Mountain Region spanning across Utah, Colorado, and Kansas — and employs more than 1,000 skilled physicians and other providers as part of its team of approximately 16,000 employees.

“We keep the patient at the center of everything we do and are proud to partner with CommonSpirit’s exceptional teams and hospitals to extend access for people in our communities and region,” said Dr. Michael L. Good, CEO of University of Utah Health and senior vice president for Health Sciences. “Working together, we will do what we all trained in health care to do — improve health and quality of life. We are proud to come together with the CommonSpirit providers and staff in that shared purpose. CommonSpirit’s commitment to compassionate care is inspiring, and we look forward to collaborating with such a dedicated organization.”