Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, 1882
(first used as a hospital)
Built in 2003

Most local physicians in Utah practiced Thompsonian herbal medicine, and few midwives were available to assist in the delivery of babies. Due to inadequate medical care, Brigham Young sent three women to the East to study medicine at reputable medical schools. He believed that female doctors should care for women. The Relief Society opened the first Deseret Hospital in 1882. In 1884, the hospital moved to a former Deseret University building, replicated here, with accommodations for forty patients. Dr. Mattie Hughes Cannon served as resident physician. The hospital functioned until the Dr. Groves LDS Hospital opened in 1905.