Profile Draft
- https://www.feetnet.com/ - https://www.yelp.com/biz/foot-and-ankle-institute-st-george - Verification notes: Founded 1981. Group of board-certified DPMs including Smith, Van Gils, Powell, Reber, Webb, Myers, Butterfield, Tidwell, and Evans. On-site surgical center. Multi-city footprint across Southern Utah and Mesquite NV.
Foot & Ankle Institute is the dominant podiatry group practice in Southern Utah, founded in 1981 and now staffed by approximately nine board-certified DPMs with offices in St. George, Hurricane, Cedar City, and Mesquite, Nevada. The practice operates an on-site surgical center, which lets it handle in-house surgical podiatry rather than referring patients to hospital-based operating rooms for many procedures.
Forty-plus years of continuous operation puts the practice in a small group of long-tenured Southern Utah specialty groups. The nine-DPM scale gives clinical depth across general podiatry, sports podiatry, diabetic foot care, and surgical foot and ankle work. The surgical center is itself unusual at the group's scale and reflects significant capital investment in clinical infrastructure.
Web presence is strong, all DPMs are publicly named on the site, and verification is straightforward through Utah and Nevada medical-board lookups.
The relevant nuance: at least one DPM (Butterfield) has an Intermountain provider directory listing per public sources, which suggests some hospital-system affiliation alongside the group's independent practice. The framing should reflect that the group is independently operated but with provider-level relationships extending into the hospital system.
Unresolved Questions
- Confirm the group's ownership structure (physician-owned vs. PE-backed).
- Confirm specific scope of the on-site surgical center's capabilities.