SCL Health, the parent company for Brighton’s Platte Valley Medical Center, announced its plans to change its name to Intermountain Health earlier this year. The company finally made it official this week, unveiling new signs at its Brighton Clinic.
Dozens of city officials, police officers, firefighters and others attended a sign unveiling ceremony Aug. 16 at Platte Valley Medical Clinic on N. 50th Ave.
“I am pleasantly surprised with how many people we have here today,” said Mark Korth, president of the healthcare group’s Peaks Region, which covers Colorado and Montana. “This is so amazing and it’s reflective of what we want this to be. We want this to be a really big deal.”
The name change reflects the company’s merger last year with Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare. It combines SCL’s eight hospitals and 160 clinics across Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and Kansas with Intermountain’s 25 hospitals and 225 clinics in Utah, Idaho and Nevada.
New signs around the Brighton clinic and on ambulances will begin appearing soon as well as at hospitals and clinics across Colorado and the region.
Platte Valley President Jaime Campbell said she was honored that the medical group picked Brighton to unveil the new name and the new logo.
“Both companies have had history for providing good health care in locations similar to Brighton,” Campbell said. “They are as comfortable working in rural areas as they are in metropolitan market. They know how to provide health care in growing communities and they have a legacy for being in their communities for a long time, just like Platte Valley. We’ve been here for over 60 years now, and we are more like a typical Intermountain hospital than some of our bigger counterparts.”
Platte Valley operates three medical clinics in the region. Those include the Reunion Family Medicine Clinic at 10569 Chambers Road and a walk-in clinic at 1450 Dexter St. in Fort Lupton. Platte Valley celebrated the construction of it’s latest clinics, Amber Creek at 136th and Quebec in Thornton, in June.
What’s more, Platte Valley and all of healthcare group’s hospitals will get new names. Platte Valley Medical Center will become Intermountain Health Platte Valley Hospital.
Wheat Ridge’s Lutheran Medical Center will get the same treatment, becoming Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital. Denver’s Saint Joseph Hospital becomes Intermountain Health Saint Joseph Hospital and Lafayette’s Good Samaritan Medical Center becomes Intermountain Health Good Samaritan Hospital.