St Luke Medical Center

Description

St Lukes Medical Center is a 235bed stateoftheart hospital located in Phoenix Arizona St Lukes offers comprehensive healthcare services including emergency care heart care advanced surgical procedures diagnostic imaging orthopedic care rehabilitation services and help for a broad range of medical conditions Equipped with the most advanced medical technology and staffed by a team of highly skilled healthcare professionals St Lukes is committed to providing highquality care in a friendly hospital environment

Mission Statement
We are committed to serving our patients visitors physicians healthcare professionals students volunteers and each other in a compassionate manner in order to provide quality healthcare by striving to utilize the most advanced systems and technology

Values
We believe in
Encouraging behaviors which support the mission of the hospital
Being the employer of choice and motivating excellence among employees
Developing strong partnerships with physicians
Making a meaningful difference in the lives of our patients by exceeding
their expectations
Persevering and striving constantly to maximize efficiency and improve
quality in a cost effective manner

History

A Century of Caring
St Lukes Medical Center has been caring for the people of the Valley of the Sun for more than a century What stands today as a 235bed tertiary medical center began as a 20bed facility dedicated to serving patients with tuberculosis Today St Lukes specializes in heart care orthopedics surgical weight loss emergency services cardiopulmonary services physical rehabilitation and wound care The St Lukes campus includes the acutecare hospital a behavioral health center with inpatient and outpatient services and two medical office buildings

The Early Years 1907 1940
1907 The Rev Julius W Atwood establishes St Lukes Home in memory of
his wife to care for tuberculosis patients St Lukes Home featured 12
tents with the capacity to house 20 patients

1911A 10bed infirmary for acutely ill patients is dedicated by President
Theodore Roosevelt and Arizonas first bacteriological laboratory and
brachytherapy laboratory are established

1915 The St Lukes Board of Visitors stages the first St Lukes Charity
Ball netting 40271

1919 St Lukes Home constructs space and beds to care for 80 patients
including a number of war veterans St Lukes Home changes its name to St
Lukes Sanatorium and expands to treat respiratory diseases

The Expansion Years 1941 1969
1950St Lukes Sanatorium changes its name to St Lukes Hospital and
expands its capabilities to include the practice of general medicine Sen
Barry Goldwater leads a successful community fund drive to establish a 60
bed addition to the hospital

1956 St Lukes Hospital opens Arizonas first cardiac catherterization
laboratory to diagnose and treat heart disease

1957 St Lukes celebrates its Golden Anniversary and opens a new
diagnostic center for detection of heart and lung disorders

1960The first open heart surgery in Phoenix is performed at St Lukes
establishing the hospital as a leader in cardiology

1963 St Lukes expands to 128 beds

1967 St Lukes breaks ground for a ninestory tower

1969 With the addition of the 280bed Medical Center Tower St Lukes
grows to 400 beds Each private room features a balcony with panoramic views
of the Valley

1969 Behavioral Health programs begin as a specialty at St Lukes

The Progress Years 1970 1999
1971 St Lukes opens the first laminar flow clean air surgical suite in
Arizona making orthopedic surgery a new specialty area

1973 Arizonas first cardiac pacemaker implant is performed at St Lukes

1974 Ophthalmology becomes a new specialty at St Lukes with the
establishment of the Rockefeller and Abbie Prentice Eye Institute

1978St Lukes begins a 30 million expansion that includes a new tower and
the Behavioral Health Center

1981 Tempe Community Hospital is purchased by St Lukes and becomes Tempe
St Lukes Hospital

1985 St Lukes comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation facility opens

1985 A physician performs Arizonas first cochlear implants at St Lukes

1986 St Lukes opens a skilled nursing center

1989 A physician performs Arizonas first laparoscopic laser procedure for
a gallbladder surgery

1996 St Lukes begins its surgical weight loss program

1999 IASIS Healthcare acquires St Lukes Medical Center

The Recent Years 2000 2007
2004 A physician performs robotic heart bypass surgery at St Lukes using
the da Vincireg Surgical system which allows for minimally invasive surgery

2005 St Lukes finishes a 6 million expansion of its Emergency
Department

2006 St Lukes Medical Center receives designation as a Bariatric Surgery
Center of Excellence from the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric
Surgery

2007 St Lukes adds a new twosuite cardiac catheterization wing on the
first floor

2008 St Lukes opens a new orthopedic wing on the eighth floor