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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

When it comes to a stroke, minutes passed mean millions of brain cells lost, doctors say. But here in the East Valley, Mesa's Banner Desert Medical Center is looking to shorten the time for emergency room patients to receive clot-busting drugs after a stroke.

When it comes to the ongoing shortage of medical technologists, it’s robotics to the rescue at Banner Desert Medical Center. The hospital’s laboratory now features a Beckman Coulter automation line. The $1.2 million system debuted in mid-June after more than two years of planning and development, and two months of installation.

When it comes to the ongoing shortage of medical technologists, it’s robotics to the rescue at Banner Desert Medical Center. The hospital’s laboratory now features a Beckman Coulter automation line. The $1.2 million system debuted in mid-June after more than two years of planning and development, and two months of installation.

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.

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.

Gilbert has granted Banner Health a special meeting to expedite the health care company’s plans to build a hospital.

Banner Health is planning to become a major cancer network in the Valley with a $100 million research facility on its Good Samaritan Medical Center campus in Phoenix and comprehensive cancer treatment centers at most Banner hospitals.

Banner Baywood Medical Center is planning an expansion that will make it the East Valley’s second-largest hospital campus.

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.