A high-ranking executive with the nation’s largest non-profit Protestant health care organization has been appointed the new chief executive of Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa.

- 1400 S. Dobson, Mesa, (480) 512-3000

Imagine a surgeon striving to repair damaged tissue while making sure surrounding tissue remains unharmed. That’s similar to the delicate task that lies ahead for Banner Desert Medical Center, the massive hospital campus at Dobson Road and U.S. 60 in Mesa.

The CEO of Banner Desert Medical Center and Banner Children’s Hospital announced his immediate resignation Thursday.

Banner Desert Medical Center is making plans for an East Valley trauma center that emergency workers say will help save lives. "We would love to have that," said Mesa fire Capt. John Jayne.

May 7, 2005

Maybe there's a downside to the delicate facial surgery Elexis Wathogama-Nunez underwent to fix her jaw. Now, the 2-year-old can open her mouth and really let loose.

Banner Health will close its oldest East Valley hospital and build a new one in Gilbert in 2007 in an attempt to avoid massive renovation costs at Banner Mesa Medical Center while capitalizing on surging growth to the southeast, Banner officials said Thursday.

January 7, 2005

Mesa’s Banner Desert Medical Center earned a spot on the top hospitals list from The Leapfrog Group this year.

Doctors and nurses monitor dozens of intensive-care patients in seven hospitals 24 hours a day via flat-screen computers in a command center at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa.

Banner Health announced this week leadership changes involving three CEOs at Banner Health's Valley hospitals, including Banner Desert Medical Center. The changes take effect March 5.

Three East Valley Banner Health hospitals are testing a program that allows patients with behavioral health issues in hospital emergency departments to “see” a psychiatrist via a secured video link.

Banner Health recently hired Stanley Adams as chief financial officer for Banner Baywood Medical Center and Banner Heart Hospital. Adams brings 11 years of executive-level hospital financial management experience to Banner Health.

Banner Health has scrapped plans to build a hospital in Gilbert across the street from a competitor.

The East Valley's busiest hospital is about to get busier now that Banner Mesa Medical Center is closing.

Banner Desert Medical Center hosts a tea for new mothers from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the hospital’s Rosati Education Center, 1400 S. Dobson Road.

Banner Desert Medical Center will no longer offer behavioral health care and also plans to close an on-campus nursing home unit before the year ends.

Six-year-old Hannah Ohm loves to read. She also loves math. But as she’s undergoing chemotherapy treatments to her brain, injected through a spinal tap, concentrating on her schoolwork can be difficult.

After generations in the East Valley, decades on Banner Health hospital boards and 15 babies born at Mesa's Banner Desert Medical Center, the Cardon family is leaving another kind of legacy with a $10 million gift to help expand Banner Children's Hospital.

Steve Young, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback, and his wife, Barbara, an East Valley native, have pledged $1 million to support Banner Children’s Hospital at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa.