West Valley City • Intermountain Health wants in on the west-side medical boom.

The Utah healthcare giant announced its own medical campus for West Valley City on Tuesday in a bid to compete with a University of Utah hospital that is due to open here in a few years.

Officials from both organizations have said that they are aiming to cut down on persistent health disparities between the east and west sides of the Salt Lake Valley and make getting care easier for west-siders.

The campus will offer, among many other services that are currently only available at Intermountain Health’s hospitals in Salt Lake City and Murray, cancer care like infusions.

“I see every day how much it matters to people to receive care that is not only excellent but accessible, coordinated and close to home,” Intermountain cancer doctor and West Valley native Francisco Martinez said. “A cancer diagnosis is challenging enough, getting to treatment should not become another burden.”

The new campus will be set in the heart of West Valley City, near City Hall, Valley Fair Mall and the West Valley Central TRAX light rail station. The healthcare nonprofit bought the nine-story Fairbourne Office Building at 3535 Market St. from Wasatch Group, a real estate company.

Intermountain Health also plans to add an emergency department on the facility’s first floor. Patients will be able to access primary care and specialty care at the campus. Officials said that some surgeries, like orthopedic ones, rehabilitation services and preventive screenings are set to be available, too.

Currently, a dentist’s office and an orthodontics practice operate in the building. They are set to stay put under Intermountain Health’s plan. Much of the 14-year-old building is vacant, offering officials a blank canvas as they figure out what to offer.

The new campus will act as an addition to the organization’s West Valley City clinic on Lake Park Boulevard, which offers primary care, pediatric services and urgent care.

The announcement continues a busy year for Intermountain Health as it pushes forward a plan to replace 121-year-old LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City.

The new hospital — which will sit at the corner of State Street and 800 South, the former site of a Sears department store — will take three to five years to build. Renderings for it show a 10-story main tower and an attached medical office building, plus green space, parking garages and a food truck plaza.

The U.’s new West Valley City hospital, meanwhile, is rising alongside Mountain View Corridor on the western side of town. That project is slated to fully open in 2029 and is set to offer inpatient and outpatient care as well as community events, like cooking classes, to help residents stay healthy.

A temporary clinic will land at the property early next year as construction continues. One other hospital exists in Utah’s second-largest city: CommonSpirit’s Holy Cross Hospital.

As for the Intermountain facility, construction is underway and the nonprofit plans to offer some services there by the end of the year. The emergency room is set to come late next year; further expansion of the campus is possible down the line as well, officials said.