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The Tucson region boasts some of the most sophisticated healthcare available, including seven primary-care hospitals and two major specialty hospitals, Tucson Heart Hospital and Southern Arizona Veterans Administration Medical Center.
Carondelet Health Network (CHN) is Southern Arizona's oldest and largest non-profit healthcare provider, serving a four-county region of 1.3 million people. CHN hospitals include: St. Mary's Hospital, St. Joseph's Hospital, Holy Cross Hospital, and Tucson Heart Hospital.
Tucson's University Medical Center (UMC), the teaching hospital for the University of Arizona, is world class, being the only "Nurse Magnet" facility in Arizona. Ranked four years in a row on the top 100 Hospital-National Benchmarks for Success list, UMC has the community's only Level One Trauma Center, serving Southern Arizona and New Mexico. UMC was also named one of the 10 best hospitals in the country by Becker's Hospital Review in 2009. UMC joins a prestigious list of elite hospitals the magazine singled out for consistently high rankings as cited by industry associations, national health care consultants, their communities and U.S. News & World Report.
The Arizona Health Sciences Center (AHSC) is home to the state's colleges of medicine, nursing, pharmacy and public health. AHSC is recognized for its research Centers of Excellence including the Sarver Heart Center, Arizona Cancer Center, Arizona Respiratory Center and the Center for Phytomedicine Research.
Opened in 1927, Tucson Medical Center (TMC) is home to the Tucson Orthopaedic Institute, the Cancer Care Center of Southern Arizona and the Children's Clinics for Rehabilitative Services, a private, non-profit corporation, affiliated with TMC and University Medical Center in Tucson.
Northwest Medical Center represents more than 30 different specialties including Obstetrics and Gynecology, Surgery, Cardiology, Oncology, Neurology, Orthopedics, among others. In addition to the main hospital facility, it also operates The Women's Center, a self-contained hospital dedicated to women's health needs. Northwest Medical Center opened an Oro Valley hospital in 2005.
Other major hospitals and health-related centers in the Tucson region include:
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