Banner Children's: Care
Banner Children’s Heart Center
Initiative Goal: $3,000,000
Banner Children’s Congenital Heart Program offers comprehensive, family-centered care to children and adults born with congenital heart defects. Our highly skilled team provides all aspects of care including complex congenital heart surgery, interventional catheter procedures, invasive electrophysiology procedures, advanced cardiac imaging (Cardiac CT, Cardiac MRI, fetal echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography) and comprehensive cardiopulmonary stress testing. Our team provides cardiology support to all Banner medical centers and has extensive outpatient clinical practices throughout central and northern Arizona. Pediatric Cardiology is a highly technical field requiring specialized equipment to deliver high-quality care. Funding will help expand the physical clinical spaces to improve access to care, acquire new necessary equipment (i.e., ECHO machines, ECG machines) and support additional staffing to expand the practice.
Banner Children’s Center for Surgical Excellence
Initiative Goal: $5,000,000
Banner Children’s pediatric surgery team is committed to providing the most advanced care for children with complex surgical needs. Utilizing a multidisciplinary team approach, our doctors, surgeons, therapists, nurses, and other specialists work together to provide leading-edge care tailored to the needs of each patient. Our highly trained surgeons perform procedures, including laparoscopic and thoracoscopic surgery as well as open surgery to the extremities, head, neck, chest, abdomen, and pelvis. Offering this kind of family-centered, coordinated care within one organization helps patients and families make important treatment decisions in a timely manner. Philanthropic support will accelerate discovery and innovation, train new surgeons, support quality outcomes reporting, and provide ongoing staffing support to ensure that every child who undergoes surgery with Banner Children’s has the best possible outcomes.
Center for Fetal Surgery
Initiative Goal: $5,000,000
In early 2024, Banner – University Medicine’s Fetal Care Center in Tucson performed the state’s first fetal surgery on a fetus in the 25th week of pregnancy. This intricate level of care is only available at Banner’s Fetal Care Center, an interdisciplinary team combining the expertise of Banner – University Medical Center Tucson and Banner Children’s at Diamond Children’s. The unborn baby continues to develop within the mother’s womb and will receive highly specialized care until the time of delivery.
The center is the first full-service fetal care center in the Southwest that provides the full range of fetal surgery in a compassionate, highly specialized, and timely fashion for unborn babies. The program also offers parents pre-, peri-, and post-natal management strategies. The fetal surgery multidisciplinary team includes a pediatric fetal surgeon, maternal-fetal medicine specialist, neonatologist, fetal nurse practitioner, geneticist, social worker, and specific pediatric/fetal subspecialists in neurosurgery, neurology, nephrology, cardiology, radiology, anesthesiology, and more. Philanthropic support allows Banner to recruit and retain top talent in the areas of maternal fetal medicine, fetal radiology, and pediatric surgery. It also supports the acquisition of the most advanced surgical equipment and technology, facility upgrades, and vital supportive services such as genetics counseling for families, psychological and emotional support, social worker services, and palliative care.