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Maricopa Integrated Health System was founded in 1991 in Maricopa County, Arizona. It is descended from the county health care system started in 1877 as a pest house, for persons afflicted with communicable diseases. [2] The county's residents approved the formation of a special health care district in 2003.
The American Hospital Directory lists 145 hospitals in Arizona, which had a population of 7,151,502 in 2020. In 2020, these hospitals had 13,296 staffed beds. The largest hospitals, based on beds, is the Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix with 712 beds.
The health system is the largest employer in Arizona and one of the largest in the United States with over 55,000 employees. [1] The organization provides emergency and hospital care, hospice, long-term/home care, outpatient surgery, labs, rehabilitation services, pharmacies, and primary care. In 2024, it reports $14.1 billion in revenue for ...
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Banner Desert Medical Center, formerly Desert Samaritan Medical Center, or “Desert Sam," is a 615-bed non-profit, short-term acute care hospital located in Mesa, Arizona (southeast suburban Phoenix) adjacent to the border with Tempe, providing tertiary care and healthcare services to the East Valley portion of the greater Phoenix area (along with its sister facilities, Banner Baywood Medical ...
The modern complex sits on the site to this day. The hospital's name was changed to Good Samaritan Hospital in 1928. In 1969, transplant surgeons at Banner Good Samaritan performed the first successful kidney transplant in Arizona. [9] [10] In 1978, Good Samaritan broke ground for a 12-story, 720 bed hospital tower which opened in 1982. [11]
In 2017, Dignity Health and Phoenix Children's Hospital (PCH)—in which Dignity owns a 20-percent stake—announced plans to build a new tower at Mercy Gilbert to house a branch of Phoenix Children's Hospital with a 50-bed pediatric wing—including a Level III-B neonatal intensive care unit [13] —as well as 24 rooms for labor and delivery ...
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