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.

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 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

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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.

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.

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

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.

Move over Mountain View? Not quite, but Desert Mountain athletic director Steve Harris can’t help but laugh at the possibilities.

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

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.

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 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.