Foot & Ankle Institute was founded in 1981 and is now the dominant podiatry group in Southern Utah, with approximately nine board-certified DPMs across offices in St. George, Hurricane, Cedar City, and Mesquite, Nevada. The practice operates its own on-site surgical center.
What an in-house surgical center means
The surgical center is the structural detail that distinguishes the group from a typical multi-DPM podiatry practice. Most foot-and-ankle surgeries that don’t require hospital admission can be done in an outpatient surgical center, and a practice that owns its own ASC handles those cases internally rather than referring patients to a hospital-based operating room with the corresponding scheduling delays and facility-fee billing. Building and operating an ASC is a meaningful capital investment that very few specialty groups in Southern Utah have made. Foot & Ankle Institute has had one for long enough that the operational model is fully matured.
Forty-plus years across four cities
The 1981 founding date puts the group in a small set of long-tenured Southern Utah specialty practices — the same general continuity layer as Foot & Ankle’s contemporaries in dermatology and OB/GYN. The nine-DPM staff covers general podiatry, sports podiatry, diabetic foot care, and surgical foot and ankle work, which is the full segment scope. The four-city footprint provides geographic coverage that smaller podiatry practices cannot match.
Hospital-system affiliations to disclose
At least one DPM (Butterfield) appears in the Intermountain provider directory per public sources, suggesting some provider-level hospital-system affiliation alongside the group’s independent practice. The honest framing: the group is independently operated, but provider-level relationships extend into the hospital system in ways the register should disclose rather than gloss. That structure is common in larger specialty groups and is not a defect — it just means the group is not purely independent in the way a single-doctor podiatry practice would be.
Disclosure
Web presence is strong, all DPMs are publicly named on the site, and verification is straightforward through Utah DOPL and the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners.
Where this lands
A four-city, nine-DPM, ASC-operating podiatry group with forty-plus years of continuous operation is the obvious anchor for the podiatry segment of the file, with both the group-practice scale and the hospital-system provider relationships disclosed.