Intermountain Health Care has purchased Bryner Clinic, effective Jan. 2, 1995. The agreement was signed late Tuesday.
Terms of the purchase were not announced.Bryner Clinic, 745 S. 300 East, was founded in 1941. Its 29 physicians cover a range of medical expertise, from internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, general surgery and orthopedic surgery, to plastic surgery, dermatology and other specialties.
The clinic and its physicians will become part of a new Physician Division that IHC is forming. The physician network is part of a nationwide trend toward closer integration of doctors and health-care organizations, according to IHC.
"IHC is committed to providing cost-effective, high-quality health care," said IHC senior vice president Steven D. Kohlert. Closer integration with physicians helps IHC meet this goal, he said.
Patients seen by physicians at Bryner Clinic will not be affected by the change and insurance plans used at the clinic will still be accepted there, said Daron Cowley, spokesman for IHC.
Dr. F. Jackson Millet, president of Bryner Clinic, said the integration will benefit the patients. "The sharing of resources of Bryner Clinic and IHC will ensure that our patients will continue to have access to the best care possible," he said.
Bryner Clinic provides radiology, mammography and ultrasound services and physical therapy. It does laboratory work and had a pharmacy.
IHC is a charitable, nonprofit health-care organization based in Salt Lake City. It has 24 hospitals, clinics, home health agencies, women's centers and other units. Its mission is to "provide quality medical care to those with a medical need, regardless of their ability to pay," Cowley said.