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2 WV hospitals expanding to meet growth
New telemetry beds
and a new emergency
department are
among the upgrades.
Joshua Bowling
Arizona Republic
USA TODAY NETWORK
Two hospitals are expanding in the
growing West Valley.
Sun City residents will have a new
emergency room as soon as 2020 after
Banner Boswell Medical Center com-
pletes a $106 million expansion.
In Goodyear, the Abrazo West Cam-
pus will get 12 new beds for telemetry
patients in need of constant monitoring
and care. The company did not disclose
the cost of the expansion but said it is
slated to open in the late summer or
early fall 2019.
Abrazo West Campus CEO Stan Holm
says hospitals are investing as the re-
gion grows.
“The most critical need we had first
was an expansion for our medical and
Peoria hospital skeleton has buyer lined up
Demolition of eyesore
stalled after development
group filed for bankruptcy.
Joshua Bowling
Arizona Republic
USA TODAY NETWORK
A solution appears to be in sight for
the skeletal remains of what was meant
to be Peoria’s first hospital but instead
became a partially built eyesore.
ADB Investments, with an office in
Scottsdale, bid $3 million for the proper-
ty at a bankruptcy auction in Septem-
ber, according to U.S. Bankruptcy Court
documents.
“The goal is to build a medical-relat-
ed building,” said Francis Marotta, a
real-estate broker with Marcor Com-
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The Abrazo West Campus opened in Goodyear in 2003 and has continued to
grow, adding a dozen new telemetry beds. THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC
telemetry units,” said Holm, noting
they’ve been at near capacity for the
past two years.
6 full-service hospitals
West Valley residents have six near-
by full-service hospitals:
❚ Abrazo West Campus near Litch-
field and McDowell roads in Goodyear.
❚ Banner Estrella Medical Center
near Loop 101 and Thomas Road in
Phoenix.
mercial Real Estate Services working on
the sale.
He couldn’t yet say if the two-story
rusted steel structure along Lake Pleas-
ant Parkway would be demolished or re-
used.There is much to do before even
reaching the planning phase, he said.
That includes closing on the sale,
which could take another three months,
according to an attorney representing
ADB.
The pending sale is the first move-
ment on the property since the owner
filed for bankruptcy last fall, days before
the city planned to demolish it as a pub-
lic nuisance.
Peoria Regional Medical Center LLC
had begun building the hospital in the
rapidly growing area of north Peoria in
2011.
Financial backing dried up within a
❚ Banner Thunderbird Medical
Center near 59th Avenue and Thunder-
bird Road in Glendale.
❚ Banner Boswell Medical Center
near 103rd Avenue and Thunderbird
Boulevard in Sun City.
❚ Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center
off U.S. 60 and Meeker Boulevard in Sun
City West.
❚ Abrazo Arrowhead Campus near
67th Avenue and Union Hills Drive in
Glendale.
Beyond that, emergency rooms and
Work got under way on Peoria’s first
hospital, Peoria Regional Medical
Center, in 2011 but stopped a year
later. LAURA GÓMEZ/THE REPUBLIC
year and work stopped.
The city eventually stepped in, citing
the property as a nuisance and a safety
hazard — exposed electrical materials
and open elevator pits line the property,
according to a city report.
The property is just a stone’s throw
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specialized hospitals dot the Valley’s
westernmost reaches.
More removed communities, like
those in Buckeye, especially need easy
access to care, Holm said. Abrazo
opened an emergency room just south
of Interstate 10 in Buckeye in 2011 and
another in rapidly growing north Peoria
in 2010.
Big updates coming to Boswell
Banner Boswell Medical Center first
opened in 1970 and will soon see several
updates.
The expansion will include a 40,000
square-foot emergency department and
a six-story patient tower with a gift
shop, pharmacy, admitting desk and
chapel, according to Banner Health.
Four floors above the lobby and
emergency department will stay
“shelled” space for future inpatient
rooms, according to Banner Health.
Reach reporter Joshua Bowling at
jbowling@azcentral.com or 602-444-
8138. Follow him on Twitter
@MrJoshuaBowling.
from the Basis Peoria charter school,
and residents have expressed concerns
that kids and teenagers are attracted to
the abandoned structure, risking injury.
The city spent $5,000 to install better
fencing and contracted a company to
demolish and clean up the site for an es-
timated $210,000. But days after the
city obtained demolition permits, the
hospital group filed for bankruptcy. The
city delayed demolition as it worked
through the courts.
Peoria officials plan to reach out to
the new owner once the sale closes, a
city spokeswoman said.
Reach reporter Joshua Bowling at
jbowling@azcentral.com or 602-444-
8138. Follow him on Twitter
@MrJoshuaBowling.
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