Salt Lake City's Primary Children's Medical Center, a pediatric referral hospital serving five states of the Intermountain West -- the largest geographical service area of any U.S. children's hospital -- lists nearly 90 specialty and subspecialty care areas from allergy, asthma, and bone marrow transplant to trauma, urology, and weight control.
PCMC had over 9800 inpatient admissions in 2000. It is affiliated with the University of Utah School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, enabling patients to benefit from faculty research and clinical expertise.
Founded in 1922 in a private home by the Primary Association of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, PCMC moved in 1952 to permanent quarters, where it stayed for the next 38 years. Ownership changed in 1975 to the nonprofit Intermountain Health Care, operator of 22 regional hospitals, 24 clinics, and 14 urgent-care stations. It opened the new 232-bed facility adjacent to the University of Utah College of Medicine in 1990 with the goal of one day becoming a filmless hospital.
An Agfa Impax system was installed in stages beginning in 1997.
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"The hospital has been filmless since March 1999. First, we installed a mini-PACS (digitizer and three workstations) when we moved to the new hospital in 1990. Then in 1997, we installed the core PACS components, including CR. By 1999, we were filmless in the radiology department, and by March 2000, we were filmless throughout the hospital. One obvious benefit: in 1997 we spent $128,131 on film; in 2000 we spent only $5802." -- Darin Day, PACS Administrator