This photo caught my attention the first time I saw it. My mother was born in the Logan LDS Hospital in Logan, Cache, Utah. My mother was born with in a block of where I was married to my wife. I likely have an ancestor or relative that passed away in the same hospital. I have written before of my long ancestral ties to the Logan Utah Temple. I wonder what additional ties I have to the Logan LDS Hospital and its history.

The aerial photo above with the hospital and temple appear to be before the late 1970’s renovation of the temple that replaced the annex and placed the parking down the hill on the temple grounds (it doesn’t look like it even had parking on the temple grounds). The hospital is in full use, so before the construction of the new hospital in 1980.

Here is a short article I found from the Cache Valley Family Magazine.

“A century ago local physicians and businessmen worked tirelessly raising money to fund construction of a hospital through the buying and selling of shares  on which they knew they would never receive dividends. They weren’t investing in their own financial future, but rather in the community they loved. “The opening of the Utah-Idaho Hospital in 1914 was really the birth of not-for-profit healthcare in Cache Valley,” said Tina Murray, communications specialist at Intermountain Logan Regional Hospital.

“The three-floor, 60-bed Utah-Idaho Hospital, which stood on the corner of 200 North and 300 East in Logan, was a major milestone for the community. Although there had been private residences transformed into hospitals for a decade before, this facility was the first modern hospital built from the ground of for the primary purpose of being a hospital. It had many modern conveniences such as operating rooms, x-ray, classrooms, business offices, a hand-operated elevator, and kitchen and laundry facilities.

“In 1925 the Utah-Idaho hospital was expanded and became the William Budge Memorial Hospital. According to the story of the Budge Clinic by J. Clare Hayward, M.D., the first baby delivered in a hospital in Logan was born that year.

“In 1948, the LDS Church acquired Budge Memorial Hospital as part of the church’s health system. The hospital’s name was changed to Logan LDS Hospital until 1975, when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints turned it over to Intermountain Healthcare and it was renamed Logan Hospital. By the end of the decade construction began on a new facility, and in 1980 Intermountain Logan Regional Hospital opened in its current location on 1400 North.

““Throughout the past century, access to improved technology, expanded services, and a broadened range of specialists has distinctly changed and enhanced the quality of healthcare the valley’s residents enjoy today,” said Murray.

““While a lot has changed, the overall mission established by visionaries in the early 1900s — to provide the best available medical care following a not-for-profit model of delivery — has not changed. This same vision is effectively being carried out at Logan Regional Hospital 100 years later.”