Alta View Hospital
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Alta View Hospital is located in Sandy, Utah
and is an Intermountain Healthcare
member hospital.
Hospital services include, a 24-suite women's center that features single-room birthing and facilitates over 1,800 births per year, a 46-bed medical/surgical unit, a 4-bed intensive care unit. Surgical services include a 7-suite surgical center for inpatient, outpatient and endoscopic procedures. Alta View Hospital has a 17-room emergency department.
Alta View Hospital has been included on several lists of the nation's top 100 community hospitals, as ranked by independent health care consultants. The hospital has been cited for its high-quality outpatient and women's health programs and its cutting-edge technology, which helps patients return home sooner than they do at most hospitals its size. Alta View is also a partner working to improve the quality of life of the community it serves.
began the night of September 20, 1991 when Richard Worthington, armed with a shotgun, a handgun and sticks of dynamite arrived at Alta View Hospital in an attempt to kill Dr. Glade Curtis who had performed a tubal ligation on his wife. Worthington held the hostages for eighteen hours. He was talked into surrendering and releasing the remaining hostages by Sergeant Don Bell and Detective Jill Candland of the Salt Lake City police department. A nurse was killed by Worthington in the incident.
Sandy, Utah
Sandy is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is a suburb of Salt Lake City. The population was 87,461 at the 2010 census, making it the sixth-largest city in Utah....
and is an Intermountain Healthcare
Intermountain Healthcare
Intermountain Health Care, Inc., DBA as Intermountain Healthcare, and formerly known as Intermountain Health Care , is a non-profit healthcare system and is the largest healthcare provider in the Intermountain West. Intermountain Healthcare provides hospital and other medical services in Utah and...
member hospital.
Hospital services include, a 24-suite women's center that features single-room birthing and facilitates over 1,800 births per year, a 46-bed medical/surgical unit, a 4-bed intensive care unit. Surgical services include a 7-suite surgical center for inpatient, outpatient and endoscopic procedures. Alta View Hospital has a 17-room emergency department.
Alta View Hospital has been included on several lists of the nation's top 100 community hospitals, as ranked by independent health care consultants. The hospital has been cited for its high-quality outpatient and women's health programs and its cutting-edge technology, which helps patients return home sooner than they do at most hospitals its size. Alta View is also a partner working to improve the quality of life of the community it serves.
Hostage incident
The Alta View Hospital hostage incidentAlta View Hospital hostage incident
The Alta View Hospital hostage incident began the night of September 20, 1991 when Richard Worthington, armed with a shotgun, a handgun and sticks of dynamite arrived at Alta View Hospital in Sandy, UT in an attempt to kill Dr...
began the night of September 20, 1991 when Richard Worthington, armed with a shotgun, a handgun and sticks of dynamite arrived at Alta View Hospital in an attempt to kill Dr. Glade Curtis who had performed a tubal ligation on his wife. Worthington held the hostages for eighteen hours. He was talked into surrendering and releasing the remaining hostages by Sergeant Don Bell and Detective Jill Candland of the Salt Lake City police department. A nurse was killed by Worthington in the incident.