Banner Estrella Medical Center opened in 2005 in west Phoenix with a full-service, acute care hospital and a five-story medical office building on a 50-acre medical campus.
The hospital is designed to provide a soothing, healing atmosphere for both patients and their family members. Features include: unlimited visiting hours for designated care partners, room-service meals for patients and visitors, pay-per-day movies, free Internet access and interchangeable wall art. Additionally, the hospital incorporates state-of-the-art technology such as an electronic medical record and computerized physician order entry system – an electronic system that eliminates paper flip charts, allowing doctors to automatically update patient information and place medication orders, subsequently reducing and eliminating medical errors.
Banner Estrella also offers state-of-the art technology such as iCare, a telemedicine program that provides an extra layer of monitoring for patients in intensive-care units. It also offers IPROB, a computerized system that helps reduces the chances of complications during labor and delivery.
Banner Estrella employs about 1,000 health care professionals and support staff, and a medical staff of more than 500 physicians who serve the rapidly-growing West Valley communities of Avondale, Buckeye, Glendale, Goodyear, Litchfield Park, Peoria, Surprise, Tolleson and West Phoenix.
Banner Estrella recently opened a sixth patient floor to meet the growing health care needs of the communities it serves. The $13.8 million project added 36 beds – 12 dedicated to obstetric patients, and 24 to orthopedic, medical and surgical patients. The expansion project increased the number of available patient beds at the hospital to 208.
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