And the Modern Healthcare, Healthcare Marketing Impact Award goes to….Banner Health!
The judges at Modern Healthcare named “Bedside Stories” -- Banner Health’s podcast about captivating personal experiences in healthcare -- “Audio Campaign of the Year” in the provider/insurer category. It earned the highest “gold”...Arizona News
As the dust settles on the state’s first-wave peak, its impact on the hospital system which absorbed the bulk of Arizona's COVID-19 hit has come into focus.
Banner Health, which cared for about half of Arizonans hospitalized with COVID-19 at the pandemics peak here in July, struggled to staff hospitals as cases surged. The...Arizona News
This past week in Arizona, hospitals and schools are reopening as COVID-19 cases jump on the ADHS website. Marginalized communities in the state are drawing attention to structural inequalities that compounded the effects of the coronavirus and Governor Ducey is being targeted in a recall effort for the state's response to the...Arizona News
An Arizona company behind a chain of urgent care clinics owes $12.5 million in restitution after swindling insurance companies by deceiving patients and overbilling insurers.
Between 2012 and 2016, UCXtra Umbrella, LLC, branded as Urgent Care Extra, operated over 30 clinics mostly in Phoenix and Tucson. The clinics’ deployed a...Arizona News
Modern Healthcare honored Scott Nordlund, chief strategy and growth officer at Banner Health, as one of this year’s Top 25 Innovators nationwide. This national award is given to those who "shape the industry."
Modern Healthcare noted that this year’s Top 25 Innovators were incredibly successful at creating solutions that are...Health Related Groups
Banner Health's revenue increased year over year in the first six months of 2020, but ended the period with a net loss.
Like most other health systems, Banner faced serious volume losses this spring that started to recover in May as stay-at-home orders were lifted, but then COVID-19 cases in Arizona surged, where the majority of...Arizona News
The state and federal filings include the individual and small group markets offering ACA qualified health plans; rate change increases impact at least one plan for each insurer.
In the individual market, Oscar Health Plan and Health Net of Arizona all proposed average lower rates in 2021 while BCBSAZ and Cigna asked for average...Arizona News
In reporting from The Casper Star Tribune, the deal includes Wyoming Medical Center's land, equipment and building from the county at a price tag of $157 million. Also on the table, Banner eliminating $50 million of the hospital's debt.
The hospital in Casper, Wyoming is supported by the county and in return provides charity care...Arizona News
The brand new, 10,000-square-foot comprehensive care center is a Center of Excellence focused on the diagnosis, treatment and study of Alzheimer’s disease. The multidisciplinary memory and research center is in collaboration with the University of Arizona Department of Neurology physicians and researchers.
Banner Alzheimer’s...Arizona News
As the pandemic accelerates and hospitals fill, Arizona became the first state to authorize use of Crisis Standards of Care. In response to the climbing number of confirmed cases, the Governor issued a shutdown order restricted to large gatherings and particular businesses, but has not signaled any interest in executing another...Arizona News
Arizona hospitalizations of patients with suspected and confirmed COVID-19 have hit a new record and the state's largest health system has reached capacity for patients needing external lung machines.
As of Friday statewide hospitalizations jumped to 1,278 inpatients in Arizona with suspected and confirmed COVID-19, which was a...Arizona News
A man has died and his wife is receiving critical care after both ingested chloroquine phosphate in an attempt to prevent contracting COVID-19.
Chloroquine is used to treat and prevent malaria, whereas chloroquine phosphate is an additive used to clean fish tanks. Experts at Banner Health are warning the public against...Arizona News
As Arizona braces for an escalation of the COVID-19 outbreak, Banner Health and other hospitals are reckoning with the possibility of significant resource shortages.
A side by side comparison of Arizona hospital beds and CDC projections paints a dire picture.
On Monday, Holly Ward of the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare...Arizona News
And the word is the giant Phoenix-based non-profit is also seriously considering a partnership with Wyoming Medical Center in Casper, Wyo.
The former CEO for Banner Health’s rural division, Hoyt Skabelund took on the post of CEO Feb. 23 for Banner Health's Northern Colorado hospitals:
North Colorado Medical Center
McKee...Arizona News
Arizona athletes and their fans will benefit from a collaboration between Banner Health and two new associations.
In preparation for the 2020 season, the Major League Baseball team the Diamondbacks and Banner Health unveiled the newly named complex called the Banner Sports Medicine Performance Center, which is located at Salt...Arizona News
Banner Health has unveiled its “HealthMobile,” a brightly colored bus that will offer free healthcare to the Valley’s uninsured children.
Although it's on wheels, inside, it operates like a doctor’s office, capable of offering physicals, check-ups, and treatments for a variety of health...Arizona News
Banner Health, eVisit, and VeeMed are joining forces to create a “Banner-branded virtual care platform” focused on ambulatory and acute virtual care.
According to a press release, the platform will provide,
...virtual urgent care, virtual primary care, virtual specialty care, tele-behavioral health, tele-stroke, and...Arizona News
Banner Health employees reached a proposed settlement of $500,000 following allegations that the Phoenix-based health system breached its duties under the 1974 Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).
Plaintiffs in the case, Ramos v. Banner Health, allege Jeffrey Solcum & Associates, the investment consultant...Arizona News
Banner Health is finally paying up after a June 2016 cyberattack; the health system agreed to a $6 million settlement last month. The security incident was said to have impacted 3.7 million people and turned into a class-action suit in 2017 after 11 individually filed suits.
The settlement includes free insurance coverage for...Arizona Comings & Goings
