The Ogden Regional Medical Center is a hospital in

Ogden, Utah Ogden ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Weber County, Utah, Weber County, Utah, United States, approximately east of the Great Salt Lake and north of Salt Lake City. The population was 87,321 in 2020, according to the United States Census ...

Overview

Ogden Regional has 239 licensed beds, 300

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medical staff, 1,000 employees & volunteers, with 77,000

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visits per year and 7,500 annual

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admissions. Annually, it performs 10,000

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, processes 25,000 units of blood and performs 2,500 deliveries. It is accredited by the

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(JCAHO) and is a

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verified by the

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History

The hospital was founded by nuns from the Order of St. Benedict in Ogden,

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. It first opened on September 18, 1946, at 3000 Polk. Due to expansion, a new hospital in Washington Terrace was dedicated in 1977. These buildings housed numerous hospital programs, while providing convenient office space for many physicians and related

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activities. In July 1977, the Val A. Browning Radiation Therapy Center, now called the Val A. Browning Cancer Treatment Center, opened its doors, to treat cancer patients from throughout Northern Utah and surrounding states. As a result, St. Benedict's helped organize the Hospice of

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for terminally ill patients and their relatives. On Mother's Day, 1992, they opened a new Women's and Children's Center, which also housed

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and

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physician's offices. A new

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had previously opened in November 1987. To further strengthen its cardiology program, the

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lab was upgraded, allowing the hospital to implement its nationally rated open-heart surgery program. St. Benedict's had been affiliated with various organizations. Since 1995, the hospital, now called Ogden Regional Medical Center, became part of what is now

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(HCA). In May 2000, Ogden Regional Medical Center joined five other HCA-affiliated hospitals in Utah to announce a new network named MountainStar Healthcare.

References

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