Alta View Hospital is an
Intermountain Healthcare
Intermountain Healthcare is a not-for-profit healthcare system and is the largest healthcare provider in the Intermountain West of the United States. Intermountain Healthcare provides ambulatory and acute health services, along with other medica ...
member hospital located in
Sandy, Utah
Sandy is a city in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, located in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. The population of Sandy was 87,461 at the 2010 census, making it the sixth-largest city in Utah. The population is currently estimated ...
, United States. In 2019, the hospital completed a renovation that resulted in a new emergency department, new inpatient physical therapy space and a rooftop helipad.
History
Alta View Hospital opened in 1982.
In December 2017, the hospital opened the Alta View Clinic.
In February 2019, the hospital completed a $140 million expansion project.
In 2019, the hospital was named on IBM Watson Health's Top 100 Hospitals list.
Hostage incident
The
Alta View Hospital hostage incident began the night of September 20, 1991, when Richard Worthington, armed with a shotgun, a handgun and sticks of dynamite arrived at Alta View Hospital in an attempt to kill Dr. Glade Curtis who had performed a tubal ligation on his wife.
Worthington held the hostages for eighteen hours.
He was talked into surrendering and releasing the remaining hostages by Sergeant Don Bell and Detective Jill Candland of the Salt Lake City police department.
A nurse was killed by Worthington in the incident.
References
External links
Official website
Hospitals in Salt Lake County, Utah
Intermountain Health
Buildings and structures in Sandy, Utah
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