The Utah State Hospital Association was founded by 12 hospital superintendents, nurses and physicians meeting at the Hospital of the Sisters of Holy Cross in Salt Lake City. Its purposes then were to “encourage, promote and secure the adoption of uniform standards and methods for the efficient operation and maintenance of hospitals…to encourage the discussion of all hospital problems, and to encourage cordial relations among the members of the Association.” W.W. Rawson of Dee Memorial Hospital in Ogden is voted in as UHA’s first chair.
— Rawson Heads Hospital Body, Ogden Standard Examiner, 24 April 1920, pg. 8