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Highly Specialized Care for Kids


children understand what will happen at the hospital.

By giving just the right amount of information, based on the child’s age, we can lessen a child’s fears of their upcoming experience. We also reach out to brothers and sisters affected by their sibling’s illness and injury and help them work through their concerns.

To treat our special patients, Banner Children’s Hospital has experienced physicians and specialists as well as stateof-the-art technology. Banner Children’s Hospital recently performed groundbreaking spinal surgery to treat a 14-year-old boy’s severe scoliosis, which helped get him back onto the basketball court again.

The growth of Banner Children’s Hospital at Banner Desert Medical Center provides improved access for Arizona’s children to receive specialized care.

The hospital offers all levels of pediatric care: general pediatrics and intensive care as well as an Emergency department dedicated to pediatric and specialized services for specific childhood diseases such as asthma and
juvenile diabetes.

Banner Children’s Hospital strives to see health care through the eyes of a child. Because children have their own view of the world and speak their own language, they need to be treated differently than adults.

At Banner Children’s Hospital, we have child-life specialists who can help