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Founded by Victor L. Brown in 1975, in Salt Lake City.1
Intermountain Health was founded on April 1, 1975, after the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints donated fifteen hospitals, as a system, to what would become Intermountain Health.
In 1982, Intermountain Health began providing non-hospital services, including clinics and home healthcare.
In 2006, Intermountain renamed its health insurance plan "SelectHealth" and formalized the separate management of its insurance operations.
In 2009, President Barack Obama identified Intermountain Health as a healthcare model: "We have long known that some places, like the Intermountain Healthcare in Utah..., offer high-quality care at a cost below average." According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, Utah's per capita spending on healthcare is 44 percent below the national average.
Intermountain Health announced that beginning in 2011, it would offer health insurance benefits for its employees' domestic partners.
In response to drug shortages and pricing scandals, Intermountain Health and other hospitals formed a generic drug manufacturer, Civica Rx, in 2018 to produce generic drugs that are in short supply or highly priced.
In early October 2020, Intermountain Health acquired Saltzer Health of Idaho from Tommy Ahlquist following a failed acquisition of Saltzer Health by St. Luke's Boise Medical Center.
In late October 2020, Intermountain Health and Sanford Health signed an intent to merge. The merger would make Sanford Health a subsidiary of Intermountain Health with the resulting system consisting of 70 hospitals with 89,000 employees. In early December, the merger was postponed indefinitely after the C.E.O. of Sanford Health, Kelby Krabbenhoft, was abruptly replaced by Bill Gassen after Krabbenhoft voiced anti-mask sentiments.
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In early 2022, Intermountain Health launched a program for people with long-haul COVID-19 symptoms.
Intermountain completed a merger with SCL Health on April 1, 2022, expanding the healthcare system's reach into Colorado, Kansas, and Montana.
Intermountain changed its name from Intermountain Healthcare to Intermountain Health in 2023.
Intermountain constructed the Lehi Primary Children's Hospital for roughly $335 million between 2020 and 2024. Gail Miller, who formerly chaired Intermountain's board, donated $50 million toward the construction of Lehi Primary Children's Hospital. The campus was named in honor of her family. The hospital began accepting patients on February 12, 2024
Intermountain closed its Duchesne Clinic in Kansas City on June 1, 2026. It also transferred ownership of two of its three Kansas clinics to Atchison Community Health Clinic on June 30, 2024, ending its presence in Kansas.
Intermountain Health announced a partnership with AdventHealth in July, 2026, in which Intermountain will transfer operational responsibility for three of its Denver-area facilities to AdventHealth in early 2027. AdventHealth will lead operations for Intermountain's Good Samaritan Hospital, Lutheran Hospital, and Platte Valley Hospital, three hospitals that were part of Intermountain's 2022 acquisition of SCL Health.
From Wikipedia’s article on Intermountain Health, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4