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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.

Cancer center launches Stand Up to Cancer ‘Dream Team’ pancreatic cancer clinical trials

The Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center at Scottsdale Healthcare is launching clinical trials as a primary clinical research site for the Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) Dream Team pancreatic cancer research project. Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly forms of cancer, the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. Most patients with advanced pancreatic cancer die within one year of diagnosis.

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.