December 12, 2018 • Vol. 17, No. 4
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HonorHealth breaks ground on its sixth hospital in North Phoenix near Dove Valley Road BY TARA ALATORRE
Pictured left to right: Preston Allred, HonorHealth Director of Strategic Projects-Regional; Bill Gates, Maricopa County Supervisor, District 3; Jim Waring, Vice Mayor of Phoenix; Todd LaPorte, HonorHealth CEO; Kim Post, HonorHealth Senior Vice President, CEO Hospitals and Chief Clinical Officer; David Price, CEO HonorHealth Thompson Peak and Deer Valley Medical centers; Jared Langkilde, President and CEO of HonorHealth Foundation at the ground-breaking ceremony for the Sonoran Medical Center in North Phoenix. (Photo courtesy of Rachel Kurtenbach)
Peoria firefighters deployed with state forestry team to typhoon-ravaged Saipan PEORIA – Weeks after a super typhoon hit the Mariana Islands in the Western Pacific, the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management’s All Hazard Incident Management Team traveled to Saipan to help survivors displaced by the storm, including firefighters from Peoria Fire-Medical (PFM). PFM sent Deputy Chief Gary Bernard, Battalion Chief Billy Morris, Captain Danny Comella and Surprise Fire-Medical Captain Kevin Johnston as leaders of this team. The U.S. Forest Service
arranged the 14-day assignment in which the team works alongside leaders from the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands to coordinate the efforts of multiple agencies in distributing temporary, emergency shelters to disaster survivors. More than 1,100 households received shelters through this program so far. In late October, Super Typhoon Yutu hit the Northern Mariana Islands as a
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PHOENIX – HonorHealth held a ground-breaking ceremony on December 5, for its sixth hospital called Sonoran Medical Center, which will serve the growing communities of Anthem, New River, Desert Hills and the greater north Phoenix Valley. It will open in the fourth quarter of 2020. The new three-story, 210,000-square-foot Honor Health Sonoran Medical Center will be located off the Interstate 17 and Dove Valley Road, and it will be built on the same campus as the Sonoran Health and Emergency Center. It will include an inpatient hospital,
ambulatory surgery center and outpatient center to meet the needs of area’s residents, which has a population that is projected to keep steadily growing. “The new hospital represents HonorHealth’s commitment to improve the health and wellbeing of patients in the fastgrowing communities of north Phoenix and Anthem. We’ll provide comprehensive care that’s close to home,” Kim Post, HonorHealth CEO-hospitals and chief clinical officer stated in a press release.
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Anthem's MCSO substation gets a grand opening, now open to public BY TARA ALATORRE
ANTHEM – The Maricopa County Sheriff ’s Office (MCSO) and the community of Anthem had a public grand opening for its substation at the Anthem Civic Building on December 8, that included a ribbon cutting ceremony to dedicate the station and officially open it to the public. Maricopa County Sheriff, Paul Penzone, and Anthem Community Council’s (ACC) Executive Director, Neal Shearer, both spoke at the grand opening ceremony that featured
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Pictured: MCSO Sheriff, Paul Penzone, and Anthem CEO, Neal Shearer, getting ready to cut the ribbon at the Anthem substation's grand opening on December 8. The MCSO substation lobby is now open Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Photo courtesy of the Anthem Community Council (ACC)
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