Renowned Medical And Treatment Facilities In The Pheonix-Metro Area
Arizona Health Report
Health And Medicine
Phoenix-Metro is filled with renowned medical research and treatment facilities such Mayo Clinic Hospital, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Barrow Neurological Institute, the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center and Arizona Heart Institute, along with other highly anticipated resources such as the state-of-the-art Mercy Gilbert Medical Center and Gilbert Emergency Hospital soon to come.Home to leading healthcare facilities and prominent medical experts, the area attracts people from all over the world who seek treatment and the healthy lifestyle encouraged by the Valley’s amenities and beautiful weather. Companies in medical care, cancer research, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and other related fields are equally enticed by what the Valley has to offer.
History
Decades ago, Phoenix was known as a refuge for those suffering from maladies such as tuberculosis and asthma. Today, Phoenix is a major health care center, attracting companies in biotechnology (TGen), medical care, pharmaceuticals and other related fields.
With medical research and treatment facilities such as Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Barrow Neurological Institute , the Phoenix Children's Hospital,and Arizona Heart Institute, Greater Phoenix has become an attractive site for companies with an interest in research assistance and clinical endorsements from top medical professionals.
In addition to attracting businesses to the area, the region's medical facilities draw people from all over the world who seek consultation and health care with Greater Phoenix's world-renowned medical professionals. The great climate and year-round recreation make the area a perfect place to pursue a healthy lifestyle and the highest level of wellness.
Acknowledging this strength, Mayo Clinic opened in 1987 and has served more than 600,000 patients from every corner of the earth. The facility's overwhelming success led Mayo to build the first Mayo-designed-and-built hospital to be located in northeast Phoenix on a 210-acre site.
With medical research and treatment facilities such as Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Barrow Neurological Institute , the Phoenix Children's Hospital,and Arizona Heart Institute, Greater Phoenix has become an attractive site for companies with an interest in research assistance and clinical endorsements from top medical professionals.
In addition to attracting businesses to the area, the region's medical facilities draw people from all over the world who seek consultation and health care with Greater Phoenix's world-renowned medical professionals. The great climate and year-round recreation make the area a perfect place to pursue a healthy lifestyle and the highest level of wellness.
Acknowledging this strength, Mayo Clinic opened in 1987 and has served more than 600,000 patients from every corner of the earth. The facility's overwhelming success led Mayo to build the first Mayo-designed-and-built hospital to be located in northeast Phoenix on a 210-acre site.
Like Mayo Clinic, Barrow has served patients from around the world and from every walk of life, including children suffering after the Bhopal disaster and royalty. The facility has been the site of many pioneering procedures in the neurosciences, including cardiac standstill and the first successful skull/spine reattachment in the world.
Being located in the northeast Phoenix corridor was all part of the overall health care strategy. Their focus was to put hospital beds and emergency room facilities where they are needed most. The new Mayo hospital also provides inpatient care for Mayo patients from throughout the United States and more than 80 foreign countries. Although Mayo owns nine other hospitals in Minnesota, Florida and Wisconsin, each was acquired as an existing facility and then remodeled. For the first time in Mayo history, there is an opportunity to use in-house experience and expertise to plan a hospital designed to meet the specific needs of patients and caregivers.
Being located in the northeast Phoenix corridor was all part of the overall health care strategy. Their focus was to put hospital beds and emergency room facilities where they are needed most. The new Mayo hospital also provides inpatient care for Mayo patients from throughout the United States and more than 80 foreign countries. Although Mayo owns nine other hospitals in Minnesota, Florida and Wisconsin, each was acquired as an existing facility and then remodeled. For the first time in Mayo history, there is an opportunity to use in-house experience and expertise to plan a hospital designed to meet the specific needs of patients and caregivers.
Bellow are links to a few of the Valleys largest and best health care providers:
Non-Profit health care provider with over 19 valley hospitals, treatment centers, and Hospices including Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center Arizona's largest hospital with more than 600 beds. With a medical staff of nearly 1,800 physicians Good Somaritan supports 45 different health care specialties. The hospital is a regional referral hospital, located near downtown Phoenix serving patients throughout Arizona and the Southwest. Treating more than 36,000 inpatients a year, and training more than 220 physicians a year, the hospital is known for its Level 1 trauma services, cancer and cardiology, high-risk obstetrics and Alzheimer's research.
Multi-specialty outpatient facility dedicated to the prevention, detection, and treatment of cardiovascular disorders. The nation's first freestanding outpatient clinic built solely to combat heart disease. The hospital specializes in today's most advanced non-surgical interventional therapies that replace traditional scalpel and suture treatment for heart and blood vessel disease.
One of the nation's top 100 cardiovascular hospitals. The entire hospital is dedicated to fight the heart disease, offering the most complete cardiovascular care services available, in a patient-focused environment.
Genomic research is now entering an era where emerging data will enable investigators to unravel the genetic components of common and complex diseases. The complete sequence of the human genome, coupled with the emergence of the sequences of other animal, plant and microbial genomes, provides us with an unparalleled resource to address biological and medical questions. With this advance in our knowledge, however, comes the recognition that further advances in technology, information based systems to integrate genetic studies, large population based research, and increased public awareness and education (including the ethical issues of genomic research) are critical. TGen is poised to crystallize these efforts.
Center for Cancer Research at ASU
The Center for Cancer Research has several promising compounds in testing including: Bryostain 1 (from a marine bryoszoan); Dolastain 10 (from a sea hare); Combretastain A4 (from an African tree); Pancratistatin (from an African amaryllis); and spongistatin (from a marine sponge). The Center has a number of newly developed drugs which are available for technology collaboration and licensing through Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE).
IBM and the Phoenix-based Molecular Profiling Institute are joining forces to speed up cancer diagnosis and treatment while making the diagnosis more accurate. The specialty bioscience laboratory already uses genetic information to help diagnose cancer patients. But using IBM's high-performance computing, the results should go much further. Instead of looking at 200-500 genes, they will be able to look at 1000 genes with IBM's help according to Dr. Robert Penny, president and CEO of Molecular Profiling. The institute is a spin-off of the Translational Genomics Institute and the International Genomics Consortium, and it is the first for-profit venture to emerge from the efforts of the City and Arizona State University to promote biosciences.
U.S. News and World Reports named this hospital recently as one of the nation's best neurological hospitals. Barrow Neurological Institute® of St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center is recognized as a center of excellence for neurological patient care, education & research. Barrow is one of the largest full-service neuroscience centers in the Southwest.
Premier training center for the nation's physicians. Center's medicine, surgery, pediatrics and obstrectic/gynegology programs contribute to the body of knowledge of patient care. Maricopa Medical Center ensures the health care is available to all area residents, giving paying and non-paying patients’ access to top quality medical care.
Mayo Clinic is the first and largest integrated group practice in the world. Specialists from every medical specialty work together to care for patients, joined by common systems and a philosophy of "the needs of the patient come first." More than 2,500 physicians and scientists and 42,000 allied health staff work at the original clinic in Rochester, Minn., and newer clinics in Jacksonville, Fla., and Arizona. Collectively, the three clinics treat more than half a million people each year.
Mayo Clinic Scottsdale is a not-for-profit multi-specialty outpatient clinic. They have a team approach to healthcare with physicians combining their skills to the benefit of each patient. More than 250 physicians & over 1900 support personnel look after the needs of patients. Mayo Clinic Scottsdale is also part of an integrated, multi-campus system that includes the 178-bed Mayo Clinic Hospital, located in northeast Phoenix, four primary care centers throughout the Valley and the Mayo Center for Women's Health. Patients can make their own appointments, or through their physicians.
The only acute-care hospital in Arizona focused exclusively on children and providing almost one third of all the Arizona pediatric inpatient care. The hospital's 22-acre, all-pediatric campus in the heart of Phoenix, is one of the top ten largest children's hospitals in the nation.
Phoenix Children's Hospital is also a regional referral center for children with highly specialized or life-threatening illnesses or injuries. The hospital caring is exclusively for children, so the health care is viewed differently. Everything is through the eyes of children, parents and siblings. Read some of their stories in our Story Album.
The Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center
Located at Scottsdale Healthcare, Home of the Arizona Cancer Center, Greater Phoenix Area, this Center combines the strengths of a leading community hospital system with the Arizona Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Dedicated to changing and saving the lives of those affected by cancer, the hospital focuses on individualized care in a calming and soothing environment to patients.
The Center includes the 69,000-square-foot Diane and Bruce Halle Clinical Pavilion, opened in December 2001, and a 35,000-square-foot research pavilion, in 2002. The two buildings are connected with a covered pedestrian bridge symbolizing the Center's theme of "Building a Bridge between Care and Cure."
Located on the Scottsdale Healthcare Shea hospital campus at 92nd Street and Shea Boulevard, the Center offers advanced diagnostic and treatment services, community-based oncologist offices, and clinical and laboratory research services provided by the Arizona Cancer Center.
Arizona Cancer Center services include clinical studies of new anti-cancer and chemoprevention agents, and genetic risk assessment and counseling. The research pavilion laboratories house research activities focused on development of new anti-cancer drugs, cancer prevention and gene targets.
Located at Scottsdale Healthcare, Home of the Arizona Cancer Center, Greater Phoenix Area, this Center combines the strengths of a leading community hospital system with the Arizona Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Dedicated to changing and saving the lives of those affected by cancer, the hospital focuses on individualized care in a calming and soothing environment to patients.
The Center includes the 69,000-square-foot Diane and Bruce Halle Clinical Pavilion, opened in December 2001, and a 35,000-square-foot research pavilion, in 2002. The two buildings are connected with a covered pedestrian bridge symbolizing the Center's theme of "Building a Bridge between Care and Cure."
Located on the Scottsdale Healthcare Shea hospital campus at 92nd Street and Shea Boulevard, the Center offers advanced diagnostic and treatment services, community-based oncologist offices, and clinical and laboratory research services provided by the Arizona Cancer Center.
Arizona Cancer Center services include clinical studies of new anti-cancer and chemoprevention agents, and genetic risk assessment and counseling. The research pavilion laboratories house research activities focused on development of new anti-cancer drugs, cancer prevention and gene targets.
