Prior to the building of the Summit County Hospital, surgeries in Coalville were done on kitchen tables, in a room over the mercantile, or on a portable operating table. Thus, the local doctors were motivated to work with the County Commissioners to build a hospital in Summit County.

The building was started in Dec 1938 and completed one year later with PWA funding (PWA Utah 1216-F). Stylistically it includes typical PWA Moderne elements: a symmetrical façade, plain cornices, and a framed entrance. Built of brick, it contained 14 beds, surgery, delivery room, x-ray department, nursery, and kitchen. Eight hundred people attended the Open House on 7 Jan 1940, representing not only every town in Summit County and other attendees from Morgan County and Wyoming (Hospital open house draws).

Very few changes were made in the next 40 years, and by 1980 the hospital facilities had become outdated. At that time, the county earmarked $250,000 for interior changes to improve patient services (County hospital). The hospital then entered some very difficult times. Travel to Salt Lake City to specialists had been made faster and easier by freeways; and Evanston and Heber City had opened their own hospitals. Many days the Summit County hospital had only one or two patients and sometimes no one at all (Grand opening).

In June 1982, two years after the renovation, the Summit County Hospital was closed forever. The building was restored in 2012 to house the Summit County Public Health department and the Coalville branch of the Summit County library.