Peter Fine, president and CEO of Banner Health, has once again has been named among the most important influencers in the healthcare industry. Fine refused to take any credit for the honor, saying Banner employees did all the real work during an unusually tough year.
For the eighth time, Fine made the annual 100 Most Influential...Arizona News
Winners have been unveiled for the 2021 Arizona CIO of the Year ORBIE awards, which honors chief information officers from around the state who have demonstrated excellence in technology leadership. There were 146 total nominations for the awards this year, according to the Phoenix Business Journal.
Deanna Wise of Banner Health...Arizona Comings & Goings
Banner Health announced the retirement of its chief operating officer Becky Kuhn. Kuhn will stay on with the organization until October 2021 while a search for her replacement is conducted.
In the nearly 20 years that Kuhn has been with Banner, she has held several key leadership roles including her current role as system COO...Arizona News
This week Banner Alzheimer’s Institute received a grant expected to total $27.5 million over five years from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, to further investigate biological and cognitive changes preceding the onset of memory and thinking problems in people at different levels of genetic...Arizona News
This week Banner Health announced the retirement of its chief operating officer Becky Kuhn. Kuhn will stay on with the organization until October 2021 while a national search for her successor is conducted.
In the nearly 20 years she's been with Banner, Kuhn has held several key leadership roles, including her current role as system...Arizona News
Banner Health has partnered with Innovaccer Inc., a leading healthcare technology company, to transform patient care and encourage savings in its IT operating expenses. With the partnership, Banner achieved $4 million in savings from rationalizing various population health solutions with Innovaccer’s comprehensive suite and a 70%...Arizona News
The COVID-19 pandemic has been especially hard on seniors and has forced most to stay home and isolate, but an innovative partnership between Banner Olive Branch Senior Center and televëda now provides seniors a way to connect with others without leaving the safety of their home.
The Banner Olive Branch Senior Center has been...Arizona News
There were 445 new COVID-19 cases reported in the state of Arizona on Wednesday, and 12 new deaths reported. These numbers will be retroactively reassigned to the dates in which the deaths took place. With 22,777 new tests reported today, the total percent positive has now fallen to 11.1%. Adult intensive care unit beds in use by...Arizona News
Last week Banner University Health Plans announced awardees of grants funded through the Community Reinvestment Program. Under the guidance of AHCCCS, the program provides philanthropic support to community-based organizations to improve access to health services and enhance public health.
With emphasis on whole-person integrated...Arizona Comings & Goings
Modern Healthcare, one of the country’s leading publications on healthcare news, has released their Top 25 Women Leaders in Healthcare list for 2021, in which Dr. Marjorie Bessel, chief clinical officer for Banner Health, was named.
The prestigious award program recognizes women in leadership, highlighting their administrative and...Arizona News
The Texas firm ClearSky Health has invested $25 million to build an inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Avondale, Arizona, which will create 100 healthcare jobs. In April, construction on the 43,000-square-foot structure at 109th Avenue and McDowell Road is set to begin. The 30-bed hospital will include private rooms, a rehabilitative...Arizona News
Banner Health has launched East Valley expansion to meet growing patient needs; the almost $400m investment will focus on women and infant care.
The expansion projects to increase space and care for infants and women are underway at Banner Desert and Banner Gateway Medical Centers in the East Valley.
The expansion of the tertiary...
As hospitalizations and mortality rates trend down in the state for the first time in weeks, the human toll sinks in as Arizona deaths from COVID on Wednesday topped 13,574.
Now fifth in the nation with 10,530 cases per 100,000 according to the CDC and still at a 14+% positivity rate, Arizona isn't out of the woods.
Even with...
The national push to increase vaccine supply, get it out the door faster, increase the number medical units and locations add up to more shots. AARP wants Arizona to put up the vaccination data for residents and staff in long-term care facilities to ensure the most vulnerable are being prioritized in the state; race and ethnic...Arizona News
Arizona currently has the highest rate of COVID-19 infections in the world. Hospitals continue to be overwhelmed as Governor Doug Ducey continues to take no statewide action to curb the outbreak, including heeding pleas from State Superintendent of Schools Kathy Hoffman to close schools for a few weeks. Health care providers and workers...News
This is a grim holiday season in Arizona with COVID-19 cases spiking 52% in the two weeks following Thanksgiving. Healthcare workers are managing increasing hospitalizations and deaths; capacity is tightening with 92% of inpatient and 93% of ICU beds in use - the state's largest healthcare system expanded its morgue capacity with...Arizona News
Statewide vaccinations have started in Arizona, with frontline healthcare workers and the elderly in long-term care facilities planned to be the first to receive the vaccine. There are already some bumps along the way, as Arizona will receive 30,000 fewer Pfizer vaccines than originally anticipated.
On December 17th, Maricopa County...Arizona News
Headquartered in Arizona, Banner Health is one of the largest nonprofit health care systems in the country. For an eighth year, Modern Healthcare has named Banner Health President and CEO Peter Fine among the 100 most influential people in healthcare.
The program, which has continued for 19 years, acknowledges and honors individuals...Arizona News
Real estate developer Alter and Banner Health announced plans for a $54 million, three-story, 80,000-square-foot comprehensive sports medicine center at the Riverwalk in Scottsdale, located along the Loop 101 at Indian Bend Road.
Scott Nordlund, Banner's chief strategy and growth officer, said,
This project is a great example of...Arizona News
As cases hit record highs nationwide and hospitals both local and national warn of looming overcrowding in intensive care units, local hospital officials are speaking out about travel for the holidays and individual responsibility. Meanwhile, there’s been significant progress on treatment and vaccine in the past couple weeks, and...
