Healthcare in Phoenix

The nation's fifth largest city offers a wide range of hospitals to serve a growing population

Phoenix offers a wide range of hospitals to serve a rapidly growing population. The Valley has excellent health care institutions including the world famous Mayo Clinic and Barrow Neurological Institute. New health care institutions, medical offices and complexes and hospitals are under construction across the metro area to keep up with the growing population and growing need. Gilbert alone has three regional hospitals under construction currently!


Banner Health

The large health system includes these Valley hospitals: Mesa: Banner Baywood Heart Hospital as well as Banner Baywood, Mesa and Desert Samaritan Medical Centers; Glendale: Banner Thunderbird Medical Center; and Phoenix: Banner Estrella Medical Center and Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center. Good Samaritan offers many specialty services, including cancer care, transplantation and Level I trauma care. Banner also has a Poison Control Center with a free 24-hour hotline with poison information, first aid and treatment recommendations.

Visit www.bannerhealth.com

 

Abrazo Healthcare

Its Valley hospitals include Arrowhead Hospital in Glendale; Maryvale Hospital Medical Center, Paradise Valley Hospital, Phoenix Baptist Hospital and Medical Center and Phoenix Memorial Hospital, all in Phoenix; and West Valley Hospital Medical Center in Goodyear.

Visit www.abrazohealthcare.com 



Catholic Healthcare West

Celebrating 110 years of caring for the community, this health system includes Barrow Neurological Institute, one of the largest and most highly regarded full-service neuroscience centers in the country. ³Our new Barrow patient-care tower will provide the community with much needed emergency and trauma services, as well as neuroscience beds, says Linda Hunt, St. Joseph¹s president. The institute is on the campus of St. Joseph¹s Hospital and Medical Center in central Phoenix, a Level I trauma center. Chandler Regional Hospital and the new Gilbert Emergency Hospital are in the Southeast Valley.

Visit www.chwhealth.org 



Department of Veterans Affairs

The Carl T. Hayden Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Phoenix treats U.S. veterans. The teaching hospital is classified as a Referral Level One facility and offers both inpatient and outpatient services.

Visit www.phoenix.med.va.gov 



John C Lincoln Health Network

With a long history in the Valley, the network has two hospitals, John C. Lincoln Hospital-North Mountain and John C. Lincoln Hospital-Deer Valley. The hospitals offer a wide range of primary health and social services, including Level I trauma care at North Mountain.

Visit www.jcl.com 



IASIS Healthcare Corporation

Offering general and acute care, its hospitals include Mesa General Hospital, St. Luke¹s Medical Center in Phoenix with a strong emphasis on surgical services and Tempe St. Luke's Hospital.

Visit www.iasishealthcare.com 



Mayo Clinic

Since opening in Scottsdale in 1987, Mayo Clinic has evolved into an integrated multi-campus system that includes Mayo Clinic Hospital in northeast Phoenix and Mayo Clinic and the Samuel C. Johnson Research Building in Scottsdale. The Mayo Clinic Cancer Center is one of only 38 U.S. medical centers named as a National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Visit www.mayoclinic.org 



Maricopa Integrated Health System

One of the Valley¹s largest hospitals, Maricopa Medical Center in central Phoenix is the health care safety net for Maricopa County citizens. The center includes a pediatric emergency department open 24 hours a day, Level I trauma care and the Arizona Burn Center. It's the only one of its kind in the state and the third largest in the nation, says Holly Ward, public relations coordinator.

Visit www.mihs.org 



MedCath, Inc.

The Arizona Heart Hospital in Phoenix was the first in Arizona dedicated to treating heart disease. The facility also has a 24-hour heart emergency center and conducts ongoing clinical and research studies.

Visit www.azhearthospital.com 



Phoenix Children's Hospital

This specialty hospital handles everything from the mildest to the most severe cases, from infants to teenagers. Its neonatal unit is the largest in the Southwest and can handle the more severe cases. Its pediatric intensive care unit also is the largest in the Southwest.

Visit www.phoenixchildrens.com 


Scottsdale Healthcare

A locally-based nonprofit health system, Scottsdale Healthcare serves the northeast Valley with Scottsdale Healthcare Shea and Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn. The Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center on the Shea campus is known for cancer treatment and research through partnerships with the University of Arizona, Translational Genomics Research Institute and International Genomics Consortium. Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn offers Level I trauma services.

Visit www.shc.org 



Sun Health

This nonprofit, community-based system in the west Valley includes Boswell Memorial Hospital and Del E. Webb Memorial Hospital, as well as the Sun Health Research Institute and Sun Health Heart Center. The research institute has an international reputation for breakthroughs in such diseases as Alzheimer¹s, Parkinson¹s and arthritis.

Visit www.sunhealth.org