PINAL COUNTY, Ariz. (June 2, 2008) -- On June 5, Banner Health will break grond on its newest medical facility; Banner Ironwood Medical Center.
The groundbreaking will be at 8 a.m. at 37000 N. Gantzel Road
Queen Creek. Speakers and interview opportunities will include
- Banner Health Arizona Region President Susan Edwards
- Banner Ironwood CEO Gene O’Hara
- Pinal County Board of Supervisors Representative Sandie Smith
- Queen Creek Mayor Art Sanders
This hospital is scheduled to open in late Fall 2009 with 24 beds and a full-service Emergency department with 19 private treatment areas. The hospital will bring needed health care services and additional physicians to the community including primary care (family practice and internal medicine), general surgery and orthopedics.
The 220,000 square-foot facility will be on an 80-acre site at Gantzel and Combs roads in northern Pinal County. Cost for this phase is $128 million. It will initially include four operating suites for inpatient and outpatient surgeries and imaging capabilities of X-ray, MRI, CT and ultrasound.
Future expansion in the initial tower will accommodate up to 86 beds with final build-out capacity of up to 500 beds. Additional expansion will be timed to meet the needs of the population as it grows. The current population of the surrounding area including Northern Pinal County and Queen Creek is 90,000-100,000 and is expected to reach 200,000 by 2020.
Banner Ironwood is based on a franchise model that uses research based design techniques to create a hospital that supports a healing environment, patient and staff safety and excellent patient care. It is the third Banner hospital with this design, following Banner Gateway Medical Center in Gilbert and Banner Estrella Medical Center in Phoenix.
SmithGroup is the project architect and McCarthy Construction is the general contractor.
About Banner Health: One of the largest nonprofit hospital systems in the country, Phoenix-based Banner Health operates 22 hospitals and health care facilities in seven states. Its approximately 28,000 employees care for more than 90,000 inpatients every year, deliver more than 32,000 babies and treat more than 510,000 people annually in its Emergency departments.