Health care is a business and economic driver in the East Valley, similar to the aerospace or defense industries. The health care sector makes effective use of private and public funds to create jobs, support ancillary services and support the purchase of local materials. Statewide, the hospital industry is 63 percent larger than the hospitality industry and 37 percent larger than the electronics and aerospace industries combined.

Kitchell and Orcutt Winslow have been selected to design and construct a new, five-story patient tower at Chandler Regional Medical Center, a member of Catholic Healthcare West (CHW). Site work on the $125 million project begins this month. At the peak of construction, there will be a workforce of more than 200. It is expected to be complete by fall 2014.

Chandler Regional Medical Center will serve its first patients in the newly completed $9.9 million expansion of its cardiac catheterization (cath) laboratory on Sept. 6. Part of the Heart and Vascular Center’s Invasive Cardiology Program, the cardiac cath lab has grown from treating 147 patients in the first year (2001) to nearly 4,000 patients in 2010.

Free means free. That’s the message the Internal Revenue Service wants to convey to Arizonans who plan to file their 2006 tax returns electronically through its Free File program.

“I see Mexico has the same problems with union management we have in the U.S. They are all crooks. The head of the teacher’s union was just arrested for embezzlement.”

Anyone looking for widespread relief from extra airline fees for such items as checked bags or choice seats had better not expect it to happen anytime soon.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - HCA Inc., the nation's largest for-profit hospital operator, has agreed to be purchased by a group of investors for about $21.3 billion plus the assumption of $11.7 billion in debt.

Scottsdale’s General Plan 2001 is our primary long-term planning document designed to guide Scottsdale’s physical growth and development. Scottsdale’s City Charter and Arizona’s Revised Statutes (Title 9, Chapter 4, Article 6) require us to have a general plan.

Queen Creek is making a last-ditch effort to get back its old ZIP code, saying the change has made it even harder for people to figure out what is and isn’t part of the community.

Sales taxes represent more than half of Scottsdale’s total General Fund revenue. Since any major shift to property taxes or other available revenue tools is highly improbable, it’s an “economic given” that the city will continue to rely heavily on sales tax revenue to maintain, upgrade and expand services.

The planned, 90-acre Arizona Health and Technology Park in east Mesa is taking root with the completion of a 81-chair dental clinic that will offer lower-cost care performed by third-year dental students.

The planned, 90-acre Arizona Health and Technology Park in east Mesa is taking root with the completion of a 81-chair dental clinic that will offer lower-cost care performed by third-year dental students. The park, at Baseline and Recker roads, is divided into 50 acres owned by A.T. Still University and 40 acres recently acquired by Vanguard Health Systems.

San Tan Flat, one of the area’s few restaurants and nightspots, has caught the attention of Pinal County for the “boot scootin’” that goes on.

September 17, 2004

A businessman and philanthropist who donated the land for the Coronado Golf Course said Wednesday he intends to fight Scottsdale if it pursues a plan to transform the course into a professional baseball complex.

NEW YORK - In the largest release yet of commercial software for the free Linux operating system, PeopleSoft Inc. will offer Linux versions of its entire portfolio of 170 enterprise software programs.

Higley Road is becoming a key address in the medical community, and property for sale around those sites could house medical pads in the future.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - H&R Block Inc. said Tuesday that a deal to sell its troubled mortgage lending arm has fallen through, forcing it to scrap most of the $1 billion business.

Extra thick concrete walls, carpet-covered hallways and other soundreducing equipment will make the new Mercy Gilbert Medical Center one of the most quiet hospitals in the East Valley.

Extra thick concrete walls, carpet-covered hallways and other soundreducing equipment will make the new Mercy Gilbert Medical Center one of the most quiet hospitals in the East Valley.

Rebecca Warren: According to a report last year by benefits consultant Watson Wyatt, nearly half (47 percent) of the 453 large U.S. employers currently offer a consumer-directed health plan (CDHP), a high-deductible plan offered with a personal account that can be used to pay a portion of medical expenses not covered under the plan.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor’s $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world.

Higher education is coming to Queen Creek. The town has reached an agreement with the Maricopa County Community College District to put a "communiversity" in Queen Creek, with an opening date expected in 2011. The deal would bring the town its first campus for higher education. The Town Council is scheduled to vote on the agreement Wednesday. 

NEW YORK — Consider the $5 debit card fee a mere warning shot.