City: Scottsdale, AZ

Category: Health Care

Telephone: (480) 323-3000

Address: 9003 E. Shea Blvd.

Description: Scottsdale Healthcare Shea, consistently ranked among top hospitals in the nation, is a 400-bed hospital that features almost all-private rooms and is known for its cardiology, oncology, and women’s and children’s services. The hospital’s Kenneth M. Piper Outpatient Surgery Center offers surgical specialties, such as reconstructive, orthopedic, urology, and gynecology, and houses the Scottsdale Healthcare Reproductive Medicine program. The Piper Center contains 8 operating rooms and a 9-room overnight-services pavilion to serve patients requiring postsurgery observation, pain control, or IV therapy. The hospital also has an emergency room; cardiology services that include open-heart surgery, cardiac catheterization, and inpatient and outpatient cardiac rehabilitation facilities; an intensive-care unit; medical and surgical services; obstetric services; a bone-marrow transplant unit; a 24-bed oncology unit; a sleep disorders center; and an epilepsy monitoring center. Also available through the hospital are pediatric services; outpatient physical, occupational and speech therapy; laboratory services; and lithotripsy, a special treatment for kidney stones.On campus is the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center, an outpatient center that provides a myriad of programs and services including hematology, bone marrow transplants, a genetic risk program, occupational therapy, diet and nutrition advice, and a team of medical oncologists. There is also a boutique featuring makeup and prosthetics. The center is affiliated with the Arizona Cancer Center of Tucson and participates in various clinical trials and special research programs.