Banner - University Medical Center Tucson (BUMCT), formerly University Medical Center and the University of Arizona Medical Center, is a private, non-profit, 649-bed acute-care teaching hospital located on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.[1] BUMCT is the clinical partner of the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson and is Southern Arizona's only trauma center for both adult and pediatric patients.[2] BUMCT is one of two University of Arizona affiliated academic medical centers in Tucson with Banner - University Medical Center South (formerly Kino Community Hospital, University Physicians Healthcare Hospital, and University of Arizona Medical Center - South Campus) being the other such institution. The area's only dedicated children's hospital, Banner Children's at Diamond Children's Medical Center, is located within and adjacent to BUMCT, providing care to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21.[3]
History
The 8 story hospital was designed by the Tucson architecture firm of Friedman & Jobusch. The $18.2 Million construction contract was awarded to the Del E. Webb Corporation of Phoenix in March 1968. The adjacent School of Medicine completed a year prior was designed and built by the same firms. The 300 bed hospital was completed in late 1971.[4]
When founded in 1971, the hospital was part of the University of Arizona. In the 1980s, it became a separate entity but, in 2010, was reintegrated into the University of Arizona under the name UA Health Network (UAHN).[5]
The 2011 name change to the University of Arizona Medical Center (UAMC) reflected the need to combine all University of Arizona affiliated medical services: University Medical Center, University Physicians Healthcare, and the College of Medicine. In 2015, Banner Health based in Phoenix, Arizona, merged with UAHN and began a 30-year affiliation with the University of Arizona in which the facility was renamed to its present designation.
Campus
As part of the merger between UAHN and Banner Health, the latter committed $500 million towards the construction of a new hospital and nearby outpatient clinic building.[7] Designed by Shepley Bulfinch and built as a joint venture between Sundt and DPR Construction, groundbreaking occurred in early 2016. The $306 million, nine-story hospital tower contains over 200 new patient rooms and 19 new operating rooms.[8] The tower was topped out February 2017 and was completed in the spring of 2019.[9] It is the 5th tallest building in Tucson.
Notable events
On January 8, 2011, Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was shot in an assassination attempt. Having been critically wounded after suffering a single gunshot wound to the head, she and many of the other 18 wounded individuals were promptly evacuated by helicopter to this facility. Giffords underwent emergency surgery by doctor Peter M. Rhee to save her life and many attribute her survival to the swift actions of the university's doctors.[10] After her condition improved, doctors deemed her safe to travel so that she could begin speech, physical, and occupational therapy. Giffords was flown by plane to Houston's Memorial Hermann Medical Center on January 21, 2011, to continue therapy. In total, 6 people died in the shooting, including federal District Court Chief Judge John Roll; Gabe Zimmerman, one of Rep. Giffords' staffers; and a nine-year-old girl, Christina-Taylor Green.[11]
Graduate medical education
Through the University of Arizona College of Medicine, BUMCT hosts nearly 50 residency and fellowship programs across almost every speciality in medicine.[12] Over 600 residents and fellows train at BUMCT and Banner - University Medical Center South (BUMCS) and all physicians who practice at these facilities have University of Arizona faculty appointments.
Residency programs
Anesthesiology
General Surgery
Ophthalmology
Psychiatry
Dermatology
Internal Medicine
Orthopaedic Surgery
Radiation Oncology
Emergency Medicine
Neurology
Otolaryngology
Radiology
Emergency Medicine/Pediatrics
Neurosurgery
Pathology
Urology
Family Medicine
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Pediatrics
Vascular Surgery
Fellowship programs
Acute Care
Endocrinology
Interventional Cardiology
Pediatric Pulmonary
Allergy & Immunology
Epilepsy
Maternal Fetal Medicine
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Anesthesia Critical Care
Gastroenterology
Medical Toxicology
Rheumatology
Anesthesia Pain Management
Gastrointestinal Pathology
Micrographic Surgery and Dermatologic Oncology
Sports Medicine
Behavioral Neurology
Geriatrics
Minimally Invasive Surgery
Stroke and Vascular Neurology
Body Imaging
Hematology and Medical Oncology
Molecular Genetics Pathology
Surgery Critical Care
Cardiovascular Disease
Hematopathology
Nephrology
Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Neuroradiology
Vascular Surgery
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Infectious Diseases
Nuclear Medicine
Addiction Medicine
Emergency Medicine Critical Care
Integrative Medicine
Pediatric Endocrinology
Geriatric Psychiatry
Associated centers and institutes
Banner - University Medical Center Tucson serves as the primary clinical partner for the University of Arizona Health Sciences' (UAHS) numerous multidisciplinary institutes and centers for excellence. These programs are a collaboration between the five colleges that comprise the UAHS: the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson, College of Medicine - Phoenix, College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, and the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.
Adjacent and interrelated to BUMCT is the Arizona Cancer Center, an NCI cancer research and treatment facility. The medical center serves as the site of the programs' numerous clinical trials. Besides the hospital, Banner Health, via its University Medicine division, operates two hospital-based physician offices in Tucson, one hospital-based physician office in Green Valley, Arizona, and one medical transplant physician office in Phoenix (for pre- and post-transplant patients).
.jpg)
