Scottsdale Healthcare Quality Measurements
Scottsdale Healthcare has created reliable care systems through leadership, teamwork, and patient and family-centered care. Reliable systems produce consistent care, ensuring that patients admitted with pneumonia or heart attack promptly receive critically important medications, such as antibiotics and aspirin. Scottsdale Healthcare outperforms both state and national averages on those potentially life-saving measures.
Coping with fussy babies and avoiding shaken baby syndrome
Raising a child is both rewarding and challenging. When parents' patience starts to run out, it can be dangerous for babies.Fussy babies can be stressful and frustrating for moms and dads -- parental stress is the number one reason given by parents who have shaken their babies.
Crash simulator drives home dangers of distracted driving
The Level I trauma teams at Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn Medical Center treat injuries from distracted and impaired driver-caused car crashes every day. That’s why Scottsdale Healthcare is helping educate the public about the dangers of distracted driving.
New Technology May Help Prevent Heart Attacks
Scottsdale Healthcare is first in the region with LipiScan coronary imaging technology, which uses a fiber-optic laser equipped catheter to find lipid core-containing plaque on artery walls that cannot be detected by commonly used tests such as treadmill exams and coronary angiograms.
Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center Drug Development Expert Receives Scientific Honor
The best career advice Daniel D. Von Hoff, MD, was ever given, he believes, is that the patient deserves his total attention. This advice has indeed served him well — this year, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) recognizes Dr. Von Hoff’s substantial contributions to patient care and drug development with the 2010 David A. Karnofsky Memorial Award.