Children's Hospital of Phoenix is a 465-licensed, free-standing children's hospital in Phoenix, Arizona that provides special services for children in inpatient, outpatient, emergency, trauma, and urgent care. Special and urgent care centers are located in Mesa, Scottsdale, Glendale, Avondale with additional specialty care services in Chandler, Gilbert, Tucson, Yuma, and Flagstaff.
It is affiliated with the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, providing pediatric training for medical students there. Phoenix Children's partnered with Maricopa Integrated Health System for a combined medical/pediatric residency program.
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Overview
In 2013, Modern Healthcare enrolled Phoenix Children's as one of the nation's largest childcare hospitals. Phoenix Children's employs over 220 pediatric specialists with more than 1,000 pediatric specialists in its Medical Staff and more than 1,000 FTE on its nursing staff. It is the largest pediatric group in the state of Arizona. The hospital also works with Dignity Health and Mayo Clinic to provide better care in specialties related to cardiology, neurology, haematology/oncology and organ transplantation.
The hospital has six Center of Excellence:
- Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital
- Children's Heart Center Phoenix
- Child Orthopedic Center
- Cancer Center and Blood Disorders
- Children's Trauma Center Level One
- Neonatal Intensive Care
Phoenix Children's is rated by the US News and World Report as Best Child Hospital and is ranked 10th in the specialties listed in the report. It is also one of the Top Children's Hospital Leapfrog group and the recipient of the Approval of the Gold Agreement of the Joint Commission
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History
Children's Hospital Phoenix was founded in 1983 as an independent children's hospital in Good Samaritan Hospital. It operates there for almost 20 years.
2002: Phoenix Children opened as a free-standing child specialist hospital in May 2002.
2008: Special and urgent care center in East Valley and Northwest Valley.
2011: The 11-floor tower is currently opened as a center of the 37-acre campus including the original East Building, two medical office buildings, the Central Energy Factory, three parking structures, the administration building and Ronald McDonald House.
2016: Phoenix Children's is appointed by the Arizona Health Services Department as the only Pediatric Advanced Support (ALS) Hospital in the state.
2017: Phoenix Children's opened 42,300 new square feet, 75 Emergency Department rooms and 9 bay Level 1 Trauma facility.
Ownership/leadership
Children's Health Care Arizona, Inc., an Arizona 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation, is parent holding company for the benefit of majority voting members at Phoenix Children's Hospital. It manages the majority of interest-earning members at Phoenix Children's Hospital and provides strategic planning, policy and oversight functions.
Phoenix Children's is also an independent nonprofit organization, Arizona 501 (c) (3), which is governed by the community board of directors.
Robert L. Meyer has served as president and CEO since 2002. He provides leadership over the organization's three major divisions:
- Phoenix Children's Medical Group, Daniel J. Ostlie, MD, Chief Surgeon
- Children's Hospital of Phoenix, Betsy Kuzas, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
- Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation, Steve Schnall, Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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