Regional NICU

The highest level of care: full neonatal intensive care plus on-site pediatric surgical and medical subspecialty care for the most complex conditions.

Neonatal intensive care

Provides the full range of neonatal intensive care, including mechanical ventilation and care of the smallest preterm infants.

Special care nursery

Cares for moderately preterm or ill infants close to home, with transport to a higher level of care when needed.

Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital, Salt Lake City

Primary Children’s is a free-standing children’s hospital and Utah’s only Level IV NICU (approximately 50 beds). It is the regional referral center for Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Wyoming, one of the largest geographic service areas of any children’s hospital in the United States (roughly 400,000 square miles).

• Neonatal ECMO and advanced respiratory support (high-frequency ventilation, inhaled nitric oxide)
• Surgical care for congenital anomalies such as congenital diaphragmatic hernia, gastroschisis, and esophageal atresia, with neurosurgery, cardiothoracic, otolaryngology, urology, and ophthalmology services
• Therapeutic hypothermia and neurocritical care, genetics, and neonatal palliative care
• Multidisciplinary programs for infants with chronic respiratory failure and intestinal failure

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Primary Children’s Hospital – Lehi, Larry H. & Gail Miller Family Campus

Opened in February 2024, the Miller Family Campus is Primary Children’s second hospital, built to bring pediatric specialty care closer to families in fast-growing Utah County and the southern Wasatch Front. It operates as part of Primary Children’s Hospital alongside the Salt Lake City campus.

• Neonatal intensive care with neonatal surgical services, with six additional NICU rooms coming online in 2026
• Pediatric intensive care, five operating suites, and advanced imaging
• A 19-bay pediatric emergency department with trauma services
• Pediatric subspecialty clinics, including feeding and swallowing, medical genetics, palliative care, and pulmonology

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Salt Lake City

University of Utah Health

Murray

Intermountain Health

Millcreek

MountainStar Healthcare

West Jordan

CommonSpirit Health

Layton

CommonSpirit Health

Ogden

Intermountain Health

Ogden

MountainStar Healthcare

Orem

MountainStar Healthcare

Provo

Intermountain Health

St. George

Intermountain Health

• Logan Regional Hospital · Logan
• Brigham City Community Hospital · Brigham City
• Layton Hospital · Layton
• Lakeview Hospital · Bountiful

• LDS Hospital · Salt Lake City
• Holy Cross Hospital – West Valley · West Valley City
• Alta View Hospital · Sandy
• Lone Peak Hospital · Draper
• Riverton Hospital · Riverton

• American Fork Hospital · American Fork
• Orem Community Hospital · Orem
• Mountain View Hospital · Payson

• Uintah Basin Medical Center · Roosevelt
• Ashley Regional Medical Center · Vernal
• Cedar City Hospital · Cedar City

Utah’s geography (mountain passes, high desert, and long distances between rural hospitals and tertiary centers) makes neonatal transport central to regional care. Dedicated neonatal transport teams move infants by ground ambulance, helicopter, and fixed-wing aircraft across Utah and neighboring states.

• Intermountain Life Flight
• University of Utah Health AirMed

• University of Utah Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship: training across University of Utah Hospital, Primary Children’s Hospital, and Intermountain Medical Center.
• NICHD Neonatal Research Network: the University of Utah is a participating center in this national multicenter research network.
• Pediatric residency and medical education through the University of Utah Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine.

• Utah Women and Newborns Quality Collaborative (UWNQC): the statewide perinatal quality collaborative, hosted by the Utah Department of Health and Human Services.
• National collaboratives: Utah units take part in national benchmarking and quality networks, including the Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium (CHNC) and the Vermont Oxford Network (VON).

Arches National Park

Delicate Arch

Bryce Canyon National Park

Hoodoos after a winter storm

Capitol Reef National Park

Cassidy Arch

Zion National Park

Red rock peaks in winter

Monument Valley

Southeastern Utah

Slickrock hiking

Arches National Park

national monuments, including Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Natural Bridges

ski resorts within an hour of Salt Lake City International Airport

Salt Lake City hosts the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games

Winter

World-class skiing in the Wasatch

Summer

Wildflower hikes in the high Wasatch

High country

Alpine lakes within an easy drive

Fall

Golden meadows in the Uintas

The state bird is the California gull. The Seagull Monument on Temple Square commemorates the “miracle of the gulls” of 1848, when gulls devoured the crickets destroying the pioneers’ first crops.

Jell-O is Utah’s official state snack, and the sugar beet is the state historic vegetable.

Utah’s nickname, the Beehive State, reflects the state motto, “Industry.” The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere.

Photo credits: Zion sunset, Zach Betten (CC0); Zion peaks, Tyson Dudley (CC0); Bryce Canyon, Emanuel Hahn (CC0); Utah State Capitol, Zac Nielson (CC0); Monument Valley, Dawn Armfield (CC0); newborn, Mindy Olson (CC0); newborn feet, Janko Ferlič (CC0); Delicate Arch, National Park Service (public domain); Cassidy Arch, NPS / D. Popovic (public domain); Uinta Mountains, USDA Forest Service Intermountain Region (public domain); Little Cottonwood Canyon, Baileypalblue (public domain). All via Wikimedia Commons. Additional photos courtesy of District VIII members. NICU map is an original graphic.