A new Primary Children’s Hospital is opening in Lehi. Here’s what the Utah County campus will offer.

A new children’s hospital is set to open in Lehi this month to help meet critical health care access needs in fast-growing Utah and southern Salt Lake counties.

An outpatient center and medical office building will join the incoming Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital at the new Larry H. & Gail Miller Family Campus, located at 2250 N. Miller Campus Dr., just north of State Route 194 near Thanksgiving Point.

The campus will open Feb. 12. The expansion is part of the hospital system’s mission to “enhance the well-being of children in Utah and surrounding states for generations to come,” according to its website.

What services will the new hospital provide?

The Lehi campus will offer “nearly all” of the services available at the Salt Lake City campus, officials said Friday, the same day an afternoon ribbon-cutting ceremony was held.

The facility will host a 19-bay pediatric trauma and emergency services center; pediatric and newborn intensive care units; a medical and surgical unit; in-patient and outpatient behavioral and mental health services.

It will also house a Safe and Healthy Families clinic for children experiencing neglect or maltreatment; sleep medicine, infusion and rehabilitation services; specialty outpatient clinics; and laboratory, imaging and pharmacy services.

That means if your child breaks a bone while biking, the Lehi hospital staff can take care of them. It can also provide care for children with longer term, more serious diagnoses.

Children who need organ transplants or heart surgeries will continue receiving their care at the Salt Lake City campus, Intermountain spokesperson Jennifer Toomer-Cook said. But children who need other specialty care will be able to receive it in Lehi.

“Each child’s care team will ensure the child receives the care they need at the facility closest to their homes,” Toomer-Cook said.

How big is it?

The five-story, 486,000-square-foot children’s hospital has 66 beds. The Salt Lake City campus, by comparison, has 289 beds.

Its opening follows three years of construction and decades of planning, officials said.

Why Utah County?

Nearly a third of the patients who visit the Salt Lake City children’s hospital come from Utah and southern Salt Lake counties, according to Intermountain. Census data shows Utah County was also one of the fastest-growing counties in the nation in 2020.

In 2022, there were an estimated 219,921 children living in Utah County, accounting for just over 31% of the county’s population, according to the American Community Survey.

“With this growth, and the growth in southern Salt Lake County, comes an urgent need for high-quality, comprehensive pediatric care,” Intermountain said in a news release.