May 16, 2024- Intermountain Health’s Central Lab, one of the most sophisticated testing laboratories in the nation, has expanded and nearly doubled in size, bringing state-of-the-art testing and advanced diagnostic technologies to help lower testing costs and enhance lab services for patients and hospitals throughout the Intermountain West.
The Intermountain Central Lab, which is located on the Intermountain Medical Center campus in Murray, is unique because it tests millions of medical samples from patients hundreds of miles away and does so at a scale rarely seen by a single hospital system. This high volume helps keep costs lower, which makes healthcare less expensive for patients.
The upgraded Central Lab building more than doubles the previous space from 40,542 square feet to 85,728 square feet.
Last year, the lab processed more than 15-million medical tests, and that number is expected to rise by millions with the expanded capacity.
The new space also allows for the addition of specialty testing previously unavailable at Intermountain facilities in Utah. This includes testing for organ donation compatibility, which previously was sent to labs, including those out of state.