SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A major Utah health care company says it will remove “Dixie” from the name of one of its hospitals. Intermountain Dixie Regional Medical Center, located in southern Utah, will be renamed Intermountain St. George Regional Hospital, effective in January. The decision comes as institutions throughout St. George have begun reconsidering the Dixie name amid a national reexamination of symbols related to the Confederacy and slavery. The St. George area was nicknamed Dixie when Latter-day Saints settlers, many of them from the South, moved there in the 1800s. Supporters have said the name is important to the area’s heritage and is separate from the history of slavery.












