University of Utah officials and other dignitaries broke ground on June 13, 2025, on a new $885 million hospital and medical campus in West Valley City's Centennial Park, according to sltrib.com.

Okland Construction Co. of Salt Lake City is the project's general contractor.

Initial phases of the 800,000-sq.-ft. hospital and supporting medical offices at 3784 S. 5600 West are set to open sometime in 2028, sltrib.com reported. The facility will be the university's first off-campus hospital in its 175-year history as well as its largest medical facility.

The 22-acre site will be called the University of Utah Eccles Health Campus and Eccles Hospital in West Valley. It will be the west side's first sizable and integrated medical institution, offering an emergency department, 130 inpatient rooms, 200 exam rooms and support offices for nearly 50 specialties, sltrib.com reported.

Sltrib.com said the hospital will be considered a major boost to the quality of life, economic prospects and health outcomes for people living west of Interstate 15, where historic metrics reveal disadvantaged residents were long underserved for hospital care.

"Just because health care services are available does not mean that they are accessible," Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson said, "and we are taking a huge step today in providing accessible major health care to the people on the west side of I-15, and I am so grateful."

The main hospital, medical office building, parking structures and tree-lined campus will be completed sometime in 2029 or beyond. The future capacity will be more than 426,000 patients annually, according to sltrib.com.

University renderings showcase two sleekly designed earth-toned mid-rise structures with rectangular surfaces.

Both the primary hospital, with an emergency department, and the medical office building feature prominent north-facing facades and are set far back from the road. Around those buildings are low-rise supporting structures to the south and tree-covered grounds buffering the entire site, sltrib.com reported.

Utah's second-largest city anticipates that the campus will create up to 2,000 new jobs and provide a regional economic boost from related commerce.

University President Taylor Randall called the event a milestone in university history and thanked the many partners who made the hospital possible. He said it would invigorate the university, the communities it serves and the entire state, according to sltrib.com.

"We believe that, together, this project will not only save lives, it also will start educational processes to work," Randall said, "not only in our hospital, but in the hospitals around the country, in the hospitals all around our state. It will make all of us different."

Spence Eccles received a standing ovation at the groundbreaking ceremony. In March, the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation announced a gift of $75 million, the largest in the charity's 67-year history and the biggest ever given to Utah's flagship university, for the hospital, according to sltrib.com.