Intermountain Healthcare announces a merger, and names a children's hospital campus for the Miller family

Covering the COVID-19 pandemic has turned me, by accident, into a sometime reporter of Utah’s health care industry (though nothing close to The Salt Lake Tribune’s health reporter, Erin Alberty). In the last month, that has meant writing two stories about Intermountain Healthcare, Utah’s largest hospital system.

• In late October, Intermountain announced it was merging with Sanford Health, which dominates the Dakotas and also has several hospitals in Minnesota.

• This week, Intermountain broke ground on a second location of Primary Children’s Hospital — this one in Lehi. The campus will be named for the Larry H. and Gail Miller family. Gail Miller committed $50 million early this year to build the children’s hospital in Lehi.