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first quarter of 2024. Part of the $ 400 million will also go towards doubling the size of Banner
Gateway Medical Center in neighboring Gilbert, a sister facility which Banner Health originally opened in 2007, as a response to the closure of the former Mesa Lutheran and the ongoing suburban growth of the East Valley.
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Phoenix area, including Mesa, experienced dramatic growth, with the cotton fields giving way to suburban residential subdivisions as well as retail, manufacturing and warehouse facilities. In December 1958, a new three-story, $ 700,000 north wing was dedicated for
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Southside and Phoenix-based Good Samaritan Hospital began talks leading up
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In the aftermath of World War I, cotton was one of the “5 C’s” anchoring the young state's agriculturally-based economy, and that of Mesa in particular. The relatively high cotton futures prices provided a financial foundation for a new and expanded hospital. The homestead of the LeSueur family, one
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Banner Health was created in the fall of 1999 through a merger between
Samaritan Health System and North Dakota-based Lutheran Health Systems, which operated a hospital complex in East Mesa, opened in 1983, which would be renamed Banner Baywood and Banner Heart Hospital. (Lutheran also operated a
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architectural style considered state-of-the art for that era. In April 1973 Southside was officially closed and replaced by the $ 18 million, 275-bed Desert
Samaritan Hospital near Southern Avenue and Dobson Road. The Arizona National Guard assisted with transferring Southside's 40 patients the
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five-mile distance from the old facility to the new one, as part of a training exercise. The campus was further expanded and altered on the site over the succeeding years, but patients and visitors can still see hints of the original 1973 structure throughout the campus.
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Samaritan Health System, and eventual construction of a new 200-plus-bed flagship hospital facility serving Mesa and Tempe. Samaritan began major planning of this hospital in 1969; the primary architects were the Houston-based firm
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