Employees will know by June 2 if their jobs will be impacted by the changes.

In the months immediately following the opening of the Intermountain Medical Center, LDS Hospital went through a "transition" period in which numbers of patients weren't yet stabilized.

"We go through these transition periods as volumes fluctuate," Intermountain spokesman Jess Gomez said.

Intermountain, which operates as a nonprofit organization, is the largest private employer in Utah with about 30,000 employees, Gomez said.

Another hospital along the Wasatch Front is opening in 2009 in Riverton, and there may be another transition period within the hospital system.

"So we're going through a transition period when we're trying to align all those job opportunities together," Gomez said.

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