[2] Due to high mortality rates during childbirth, Eliza R. Snow and Brigham Young sent women to receive medical degrees in the eastern United States during the 1870s and '80s.

[3]: 158  Under Eliza Snow's direction, the Deseret Hospital was established in 1882, and was mostly staffed by the women who received medical degrees.

Despite support from the Relief Society and the community, the hospital was shut down in 1890 due to lack of funding.

[2] Deseret Hospital is commemorated at This Is the Place Heritage Park, with the replica historical building built in 2003.

[5][6]: 1  Groves saw the community need for a hospital with up-to-date services, so he donated all of his property to the construction and use of the building when he died.

[7]: 1  The hospital opened in 1905 and was dedicated by LDS Church president Joseph F. Smith on January 4.

[7]: 2  The hospital had eighty bed spaces in its five stories, and kept up to date on modern technologies of the time.