Banner University Medical Center, Tucson
Banner University Medical Center Tucson, (fka, University of Arizona Medical Center – University Campus), is nationally recognized for providing exceptional patient care, teaching future health care professionals and conducting groundbreaking research. Also located on the campus is Diamond Children’s – recognized for its specialized pediatric services including neonatal and intensive care, emergency medicine and cancer therapies. Banner University Medical Center Tucson is Southern Arizona's only Level I Trauma Center, meaning we care for the most critically injured patients. The hospital is consistently listed among the nation's top hospitals in the prestigious Best Hospitals ranking by U.S. News & World Report. Our nurses’ innovative, safe and thoughtful care has been recognized with Magnet® designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Our specialty services include comprehensive heart and cancer care, advanced neuroscience techniques and a multi-organ transplant program.
Banner University Medical Center, South
Banner University Medical Center South, (fka University of Arizona Medical Center – South Campus), is a comprehensive medical center that includes an Emergency Department, a state-designated trauma center and a Behavioral Health Pavilion. We are an Arizona Department of Health Services-accredited Cardiac Receiving Center and a Nurses Improving Care for Health system Elders-designated senior-friendly hospital. The hospital is staffed by Banner University Medicine physicians and is managed by Banner Health under an operating agreement with Pima County. Our specialty services include inpatient and outpatient behavioral health, treatment and education for diabetes, innovative geriatrics care and comprehensive orthopedics.
Southern Arizona VA Health Care System
The VA Medical Center located at Tucson Arizona is the "Flagship" for the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System (SAVAHCS) which serves over 150,000 veterans located in eight counties in southern Arizona and one county in western New Mexico. This 283-bed hospital provides training, primary care and sub-specialty health care in numerous medical areas for eligible veterans. SAVAHCS also provides our veterans with the best quality care at seven Community Based Outpatient Clinics located at Safford, Casa Grande, Sierra Vista, Yuma, Green Valley, Northwest and Southeast Tucson. SAVAHCS has been serving veterans since its dedication on October 13, 2008. The 80th Anniversary year saw the opening of a new Mental Health Care Building on the medical center grounds and the opening of a new Southeast Community Based Outpatient Clinic. In the area of education SAVAHCS has affiliations with over 70 academic institutions. SAVAHCS plays a vital role in Arizona health care education as the principal affiliate with the University of Arizona's College of Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy. Each year over 700 physicians, nurses and other health care professionals from educational institutions across the country receive training at SAVAHCS. Virtually all SAVAHCS staff physicians hold faculty appointments at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.
Crisis Response Center
The only facility of its kind in the country, the CRC offers a range of recovery-focused services for adults and children experiencing a mental-health or substance-use crisis, from assessment and triage to peer support, stabilization and brief stays for acute care. It also houses a state-of-the-art call center and has a secure “sally port” to facilitate prompt and safe transfers from law enforcement and other first responders.
Services at the CRC, including the call center, are provided by Crisis Response Network of Southern Arizona. The facility is just south of Ajo Way and Country Club Road. In its first year, the CRC served almost 12,000 adults and children. In the same period, calls to the crisis line increased from about 6,000 a month to about 11,000 a month. Through ongoing collaboration with members and their families, Pima County administration, Banner UMC, the UA College of Medicine, law enforcement, courts, advocacy and peer-run organizations and other stakeholders, CRC has a welcoming, supportive facility to help individuals and their families stabilize from a crisis and return safely to the community. Members and family members at the CRC have access to advocacy, peer and family support, and providers to coordinate care and support recovery. The call center is the “command and control center” for the crisis-care network, coordinating resources in crisis-care network, responding to requests for hospital transfers for court-ordered evaluation and dispatching Mobile Acute Crisis (MAC) teams.
Pima County voters approved bonds for the Crisis Response Center and nearby Behavioral Health Pavilion (operated by UA Health Network) in 2006.