Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix and Phoenix Children’s Hospital

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Introduction

Access to quality healthcare is important in maintaining a good quality of life and promoting a nation’s health. As healthcare is closely linked to development and progress, access to quality healthcare services and facilities guarantees that a community can thrive. America has one of the most robust healthcare systems in the world. The country’s healthcare infrastructure comprises complex integrated systems of technologies, facilities, resources, and professionals. Some of the core healthcare facilities found across the country include outpatient clinics, hospitals, clinical labs, hospices, specialized care centers, and long-term care facilities. Currently, the US has thousands of registered healthcare facilities across the country that help meet the country’s healthcare needs. The two major healthcare facilities in Phoenix that this paper will explore include Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix and Phoenix Children’s Hospital. Healthcare facilities are integral to the country’s healthcare system as they provide a variety of healthcare services that help keep the nation healthy and boost development.

Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix

Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix is a leading healthcare facility in Arizona and is ranked among the top 50 hospitals in the country. This facility specializes in urology, geriatrics, and nephrology, and it is renowned for its medical care, treatment, and recovery. The facility is an academic medical Center it focuses on research, clinical excellence, and teaching. The origin of this facility dates to 1911 when founder Lulu Clifton first established the hospital. At the time, Ms. Clifton was recovering from tuberculosis, and she was convinced that Phoenix needed a new hospital. When she first set up the hospital, she named it Arizona Deaconess Hospital, and in 1928, the hospital was renamed Good Samaritan Hospital. In 2015, the hospital was renamed Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix, reflecting the hospital’s merger with the University of Arizona health network.

Phoenix Children’s Hospital

Phoenix Children’s Hospital is the only children’s hospital in Arizona and is ranked among the leading children’s hospitals in the country. This hospital was first opened in September 1983, and it was physically located within the Good Samaritan Hospital. At the time, the hospital had 124 dedicated pediatric beds, a figure that gradually expanded as the hospital took over the Good Samaritan pediatric services. In 2002, the hospital moved its physical premises from Good Samaritan Hospital and relocated into its twenty-two-acre site. At the time, the hospital was one of its kind as it was the first free-standing specialized pediatric hospital in Arizona. Since then, Phoenix Children’s Hospital has grown into a large pediatric healthcare facility that provides specialized healthcare services such as the neonatal intensive care unit, pediatric advanced life support, and organ transplant surgeries.

Similarities Between Phoenix Children’s Hospital and Banner-University Medical Center

Phoenix Children’s hospital and Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix are similar in that they share interests in forming academic partnerships and enhancing technologies and skills in the healthcare industry. Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix entered a one-of-a-kind academic partnership with the University of Arizona, intending to create a reliable statewide health care system that would promote Arizona’s quality of health care. This academic partnership also saw Banner-University Medical Center make a 30-year commitment to provide the University of Arizona students from the college of medicine in Tucson and the college of medicine in phoenix residency (Cairns et al., 2017). To date, this opportunity promotes medical research and training, and it helps position one of Arizona’s top medical health care facilities as a medical destination that provides world-class services.

Like Banner-University Medical Center, Phoenix Children’s Hospital similarly has an academic partnership with the University of Arizona. The two institutions formed their partnership in 2010 to train the next generations of pediatrics in the country and develop new lifesaving medical discoveries that would improve the pediatric health care services in the state of Arizona and the country at large. Based on this partnership, the Phoenix Children’s Hospital has designated the University of Arizona College of Medicine as its principal academic affiliate, while the University of Arizona College of Medicine has designated the Phoenix Children’s hospital as its principal pediatric affiliate. This partnership launched Phoenix Children’s Hospital into the national limelight as it became one of the country’s largest free-standing children’s hospitals. The collaborative research projects the two institutions have jointly have also been integral in advancing knowledge on childhood diseases and injuries and improving the treatments delivered. For instance, their research and findings on Exertional Syncope have been integral in treating the disease (Pitt, 2018).

Differences Between Phoenix Children’s Hospital and Banner-University Medical CenterPhoenix Children’s Hospital specializes in pediatrics. Therefore, a focus on this branch of medicine requires that the hospital focus on the health of infants, children, and adolescents. Since the hospital’s opening in 1983, Phoenix Children’s Hospital has offered comprehensive medical care to patients from birth to 21. In contrast, Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix focuses more on patients between the ages of 20 to old age. As such, the medical practitioners in this hospital have specialized in medicine that addresses older individuals’ health and medical needs. For instance, Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix is known for its specialization in geriatric medicine (Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix). This branch of medicine focuses on promoting the health of older people by preventing and treating the diseases and conditions most common among the elderly. Banner’s geriatric medical program focuses on individuals that are 65 years old and older and

The differences between Phoenix Children’s Hospital and Banner-University Medical Center are also apparent in their medical programs. Phoenix Children’s Hospital has a medical care program that entails health services such as complex care, comprehensive primary care, and adolescent medicine (Phoenix Children’s Hospital). In contrast, Banner-University Medical Center has medical programs that offer maternity, intensive care, palliative care, and wound care. The difference in the medical programs and health care services offered is due to their different patient base. While Phoenix Children’s hospital focuses on patients between birth and 21, Banner-University Medical center focuses on the health care of adults and the elderly.

Conclusion

Healthcare facilities are integral to the country’s healthcare system. They provide various medical services that help keep a nation healthy and therefore boost development. In Phoenix, two of the leading health facilities that put Arizona on the national map and help meet the state’s health and medical goals are Phoenix Children’s Hospital and Banner- University Medical Center Phoenix. These facilities have been operational for decades, and they provide medical care services to patients from the time of their birth to old age. As indicated above, Phoenix Children’s hospital focuses on pediatric medicine while Banner-University Medical Center focuses on geriatric medicine. Despite this difference, these hospitals have helped develop research in their fields of medicine and have developed effective treatments for various diseases and conditions. By partnering with the University of Arizona College of Medicine, the hospitals have also helped train the next generation of medical practitioners in Arizona and the country. Overall, their contribution to the field of medicine and the in promoting healthcare is immeasurable.

References

Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix. Phoenix. Retrieved May 27, 2022, from https://phoenixmed.arizona.edu/bannerCairns, C. B., Bollinger, K., & Garcia, J. G. (2017). A transformative approach to academic medicine: the partnership between the University of Arizona and Banner Health. Academic Medicine, 92(1), 20-22.

Phoenix Children’s Hospital. Retrieved May 27, 2022, from https://www.phoenixchildrens.org/Pitt, T. (2018). Exertional Syncope: A 10-year Retrospective Review.