This year we witnessed hospitals and healthcare providers struggle during the worst pandemic of our lifetimes. In this annual data edition, The Hertel Report covers the business behind Arizona hospitals and health systems. Within this 16-page edition, readers can find information including size and scope, market footprint, profits,...
Only 88 intensive care unit beds are currently available for use and 39% of ICU beds are currently in use by COVID-19 patients. Only 6% of all hospital inpatient beds remain available -- 31% are in use by COVID-19 patients. On Wednesday, Arizona reported 3,249 new cases of COVID-19 and 81 new deaths related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Only...
From new facilities to new administrative orders and changes in leadership, Arizona healthcare and hospitals have seen major changes over the last several days – changes that could have a significant impact on the hospital industry in Arizona, including how hospitals continue to handle the COVID-19 pandemic.
This week, two of...
On Wednesday, August 18, Arizona reported 2,402 new cases of COVID-19, 37 new deaths and that 54.5% of Arizonans are now vaccinated. Across the state, 23% of intensive care unit beds are in use by COVID-19 patients and 10% of ICU beds remain available.
This information comes from the Arizona Department of Health Services COVID-19...
Acting United States Attorney Glenn McCormick announced the settlement May 5 after alleging the Phoenix hospital owned by Dignity Health and the neurosurgical practice, which resides on the hospital campus, allegedly billed Medicare for, "certain doubly and triply concurrent and overlapping surgeries."
According to KJZZ, the...Arizona News
Dignity Health Chandler Regional Medical Center has recently opened a new Heart Arrhythmia Center which is designed to diagnose and treat patients suffering from irregular heartbeats such as atrial fibrillation (the most common arrhythmia).
The new center is home to a team of physicians who use the most advanced technology in the...
Arizona reported 605 new cases on March 24, bringing the state total to 837,849. There were 44 new deaths attributable to COVID-19, the Arizona death toll is now 16,842. Only 9% of intensive care unit beds across the state are in use by COVID-19 patients and 16% of beds are currently available.
This information comes courtesy of the...
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 Comings & Goings
Mary Steigerwald is now a healthcare consultant for telehealth and virtual Strategy at Dignity Health Medical Group, where she was regional director of operations.Arizona News
Medical office experts in the Phoenix office of JLL were chosen to market 80,000 square feet of new medical office space planned for one of the last Val Vista Drive-fronting parcels surrounding Dignity Health’s Mercy Gilbert Medical Center.
The 80,000-square-foot medical office project, Mercy Medical Center, is being directed...Arizona Comings & Goings
Yavapai Regional Medical Center, a two-hospital system based in Prescott, AZ, and Dignity Health have completed their affiliation.
Yavapai Regional Medical Center will be part of Dignity Health’s Arizona division and will remain a not-for-profit, community hospital.
The partnership will scale best-in-class clinical services,...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
Yavapai Regional Medical Center’s (YRMC) Board of Directors and Administrative Council recently made the decision to evaluate how a relationship with a larger health system could help YRMC expand healthcare in the Quad City region.
YRMC is a locally owned, locally operated, not-for-profit healthcare provider with acute care...Arizona Comings & Goings
Anne Henry is now the Divisional Contract Manager for Arizona and Nevada at Dignity Health; she was formerly a Senior Manager of Payor Contracting for Arizona Pain Specialists....National News
After failing to agree on a contract, most Cigna customers in California won't find Dignity's hospitals, outpatient surgery centers and medical groups in their provider directory as of January 1, 2020.
Cigna ended another Dignity Health contract Dec. 1 in Nevada citing the system was overpriced for the region - an argument it...Arizona News
More than 300 healthcare businesses and more than 14,000 are employed in the healthcare sector in Gilbert, located southeast of Phoenix, a town on a mission to be the "City of the Future".
In an interview with Community Impact, Avison Young, a principal at commercial real estate company Avison Young, explained Gilbert's...Arizona News
According to the HHS Office of the Inspector General, the hospital overstated its wages and wage-related costs by $12.3 million - an error that could have resulted in more than $11 in overpayments to Arizona hospitals.
The 595-bed nonprofit hospital in midtown Phoenix is part of the CommonSpirit (formerly Dignity Health)...Arizona News
The merger of Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health created CommonSpirit Health in February.
According to Modern Healthcare, the two-month old system reported an operating gain of $144 million in the prior-year period, a gain derived from the two separate systems, pre-merger. CommonSpirit's operating margin fell from 2...
Nonprofit hospitals across Arizona are struggling to control expenses, although revenues total billions of dollars, profits are dwarfed due to massive costs.
According to data from the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association provided for Jan. 2019, for a 12-month period ending Jan. 31, average hospital operating margins for...
