Banner Health

Banner Health is a non-profit health system in the United States, based in Phoenix, Arizona. It operates 23 hospitals as well as specialized facilities. The health system is the largest employer in Arizona as of April, 2015, with Walmart a close second. Banner employs more than 39,000 in Arizona alone.^[2]

The organization provides emergency care, hospital care, hospice, long-term/home care, outpatient surgery centers, labs, rehab services, pharmacies, and more recently has begun operating primary care physician clinics, which include Banner Arizona Medical Clinic and Banner Medical Group. In 2010, it reported assets of $6.4 billion and revenues of $4.9 billion.^[3]

Banner Health was created in 1999 through a merger between Lutheran Health Systems, based in North Dakota, and Samaritan Health System, based in Phoenix, Arizona.^[4] In 2001, Banner sold its operations in Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota, and became solely based in Phoenix.^[5]

Banner also operates a Medicare Advantage insurance plan in the valley referred to as Banner MediSun.^[6] Banner is in the process of undergoing organizational change and is in the innovation stage.

Banner Health has partnered with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, one of the original three comprehensive cancer centers in the United States established by the National Cancer Act of 1971, and has built a $90 million cancer center in Gilbert, Arizona. For 2014, MD Anderson Cancer Center was ranked #2 for cancer care in the "Best Hospitals" survey published in U.S. News & World Report.^[7] MD Anderson is widely regarded as among the best cancer hospitals in the United States.^[8]

In 2006 Banner Health launched a telemedicine program. The health system determined the telemonitoring saved 34,000 ICU days and close to 2,000 lives in 2013 based on APACHE II predicted length of stay and mortality rates.^[9]

The Arizona Board of Regents recently approved Banner Health to take over the University of Arizona Health Network and will include the transition of UAHN and UA medical center's staff in Tucson to a Banner entity. The move was made to enhance the financial foundation of the University Medical Center and to reinvest in the facilities and operations of the medical center. The transaction also includes the affiliated UAHN physician medical groups.^[10]

Awards

• 2011 Arizona's Most Admired Companies^[1]
• 2010 Arizona’s Most Admired Companies^[11][12]
• Top 100 Hospitals to work for, 2009^[13]
• Banner Good Sam in Phoenix, AZ and North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley, CO have reached magnet hospital status^[13]

Locations

Banner - University Medical Center Phoenix

Banner - University Medical Center Phoenix (formerly Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, or "Good Sam") is located immediately northeast of downtown Phoenix and is the flagship facility of Banner Health.

Lulu Clifton, a Deaconess in the Methodist Church from Nebraska, arrived in Phoenix in 1900, against her doctors' advice, to recover from tuberculosis. As she recovered, Clifton saw a need for a hospital in the growing desert town. Clifton, with the help of other prominent Methodists, founded the Arizona Deaconess Hospital in 1911 in a rented apartment building in downtown Phoenix, and started a nurse training program. In 1917 the group acquired land on McDowell Road and 10th Street (a remote, rural area of Phoenix at the time) for a permanent hospital structure, which (after construction was delayed for World War I) opened in 1923. (The modern complex sits on the site to this day.)

The hospital's name was changed to Good Samaritan Hospital in 1928.

In 1978, Good Samaritan broke ground for a 12-story hospital tower, which opened in 1982. The building, designed by noted Chicago architect Bertrand Goldberg (best known for his iconic Marina City complex) featured his signature ultra-modern architecture, which made the tower a Phoenix architectural icon. The expansion also made Good Samaritan the largest hospital in Arizona to date.

"Built in downtown Phoenix, the Good Samaritan Hospital consisted of a twelve-story monolithic concrete bed tower, which rested on a lower, rectangular ancillary building housing support services. The ancillary building, a concrete framed structure with windowless walls of sprayed concrete, contained the functional support elements such as surgery, emergency, laboratory, labor-delivery, admissions and administration. A system of bridges connected the ancillary building support services with the appropriate bed floor.

"Typical of Goldberg's health care facility designs, which placed the nurse at the heart of the design, he organized the 720 bed patient tower into patient 'clusters.' Each floor contained sixty beds, which were distributed in four separate fifteen-bed clusters organized around a nurse's station. A nurse administrator connected two clusters. The hospital was the first phase of a more extensive thirty-acre comprehensive health care and community development program, of which only parts were implemented."^[14]

The Medical Center is also home to several residency training programs including Obstetrics and Gynecology, Internal Medicine, Surgery, Psychiatry, Orthopedic Surgery, Family Medicine and Pharmacy.^[15]

Banner UMC Phoenix

Banner will invest nearly $1 billion in clinics and new teaching-hospital towers in Tucson and Phoenix. Those projects include a $179 million emergency department scheduled to open in July 2017, a $239 million patient tower set to open in late 2018 and a $50 million clinical space near the hospital.^[16] The 700,000-sq.-ft. Emergency Department and Patient Tower Expansion project includes a three-story podium that accommodates the emergency department relocation, new observation space on the first floor and surgery expansion and administration on the second floor.

A 13-story patient tower is built on top of this podium and houses 256 patient beds, as well as two shell floors for future build-out. This project also included multiple ‘make ready’ phases, including demolition of an existing vacant medical office building to make room for a new staff parking structure, followed by demolition of the existing staff parking structure. All of these phases include intensive relocation of all existing hospital utilities, as well as the addition of a new generator building.

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Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center

Banner Health partnered with The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (based at Texas Medical Center in Houston), consistently one of the two highest-ranked cancer centers by U.S. News & World Report, to build a $100 million cancer center in Gilbert, Arizona (southeast suburban Phoenix) on the Gateway campus. This facility opened in 2011 and offers outpatient services, including radiation treatment, diagnostic imaging, infusion therapy, cancer-specific clinics and support services. Banner Gateway provides inpatient care such as surgery, interventional radiology and stem cell transplantation. iIn March 2014, a 103,000 square feet, $62 million expansion was completed to increase clinic space, infusion bays and radiation oncology facilities.^[17]

Patients at Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center receive care based on the same protocols and practice standards provided at MD Anderson and benefit from integration with MD Anderson specialists in Houston. The new facilities were designed in collaboration with MD Anderson experts, ensuring state of the art equipment and treatment capabilities are in place. MD Anderson provides clinical direction for the new cancer center, which is the broadest extension of its services outside Houston.^[18]

Location List

Banner Health facilities can be found in seven states:

• Alaska
• Arizona
• California
• Colorado
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• Wyoming

See also

• Banner Lassen Medical Center

References

External links

• Banner Health