HealthGrades, a national independent health care ratings organization, has named Mesa's Mountain Vista Medical Center as a "distinguished hospital for clinical excellence." This distinction places Mountain Vista among the top 5 percent of hospitals nationwide for clinical performance.

The author of a national hospital-rating study says Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center “is one of the best hospitals I’ve seen.” The medical center was named today as one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals, joining Mayo Clinic as the only Arizona hospitals on the list compiled by HealthGrades, a leading health-care ratings organization.

HealthGrades has awarded the Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence to Chandler Regional Medical Center. The organization gives the designation to the top 5 percent of the nation's hospitals. It is based on a study of patient death and complication rates judged across 26 different medical procedures.

Mountain Vista Medical Center's Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory is the first in the state to install the CARTO 3, 3-D imaging system, which benefits patients with a wide variety of abnormal heart rhythm disorders.

PHILADELPHIA - In 2005, almost a third of the nation’s 4.1 million births were by cesarean section. No one can explain why the United States keeps shattering its own cesarean records.