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3555 S Val Vista Dr, Gilbert, 85297, Arizona, United States Coordinates 33°17′14″N 111°45′7″W / 33.28722°N 111.75194°W / 33.28722; -111
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 hospital, based on beds, is the Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix, with 712 beds. There is a hospital run by the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix.
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]
In November 1947, a fundraising campaign began to raise money to build the new hospital. The facility opened in July 1953. [2] In 2010, Bishop Thomas Olmsted revoked the hospital's affiliation with the Roman Catholic Church in a controversy over medical procedures and church teachings (see below).
The hospital opened as Chandler Community Hospital in 1961. The 42-bed hospital was located east of downtown Chandler and quickly became poorly placed and too small for the area's large population increase in the 1970s and early 1980s. After a multiple-year effort, the hospital relocated to its present site in 1984 with a new 120-bed facility.
American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) [32] - was founded in 1932 by a group of 10 gastroenterologists in New York City and now consists of over 16,000 gastroenterologists from 86 countries.
The oldest hospital in the KIMS Group was founded in 2000 at Nellore by Dr. Bhaskar Rao Bollineni, a cardiac surgeon who has performed over 30,000 surgeries. Shortly after, in 2002, he started another hospital in Rajahmundry. In 2004, KIMS Group's flagship hospital, KIMS Secunderabad was established. It is now a 1,000-bed hospital. [3]
After completing pediatric gastroenterology fellowship in 1995, he joined the Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York as Director through 2000, and later joined Lenox Hill Hospital from 2000 through 2004 in the same position.