Doctors, nurses, military personnel, wounded patients, and their families arrived in Brigham City to work at Bushnell.

After the hospital's closure following the end of the war, the buildings sat empty for a short period.

At its peak, the hospital was a community of some 6,000 inhabitants, including patients, assigned military personnel, and civilian employees.

The superintendent and a few assistants began working on June 4, 1949, and by January 1950, 542 students were accepted at the federally run Intermountain Indian School.

[3] A year later, a student committed suicide in a Brigham City jail after being arrested for public intoxication.

"When BIA officials planned on shutting down the school due to limited funding and declining enrollment, students rallied to keep it open.

City officials submitted a master plan for the site to the government in order to regain its 17 acres (69,000 m2) along U.S. Route 91.

A furniture store, a consulting firm, a martial arts company, and various churches all house their businesses in the former home of the Intermountain Indian School.

[6] For the past 20 years, former students of Intermountain have held an annual reunion the third week of July at Wheatfields Lake near Navajo, New Mexico.