HonorHealth
healthcare organization in Scottsdale, United States
HonorHealth is a healthcare network in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The network encompasses nine affiliated hospitals, over thirty primary care offices, 24 urgent cares, as well as cancer care centers. The network is the areas second largest health network with 1,416 staffed beds, 66,000 annual discharges, and over $2 billion in annual revenue.
History
HonorHealth is the result of a 2013 merge between two smaller Phoenix-area health networks — John C. Lincoln Health Network and Scottsdale Healthcare.
John C. Lincoln Health Network
In the 1920's, Arizona became a destination for people all over the United States looking for a cure for their respiratory illnesses, namely tuberculosis. Some migrants, or lungers as they were sometimes referred to, and families camped in the desert north of Phoenix (now Sunnyslope) with little money to spare. In 1927, Desert Mission formed to assist with food and medical needs.
In 1931, John C. Lincoln and his wife Helen, like many others, headed west in hopes of curing Helen's tuberculosis. They stayed in Phoenix, Helen recovered, and the two became actively involved in Desert Mission's work and its expansion into the area's first medical clinic and emergency station. Eventually, a hospital — Desert Mission Convalescent Hospital — was built at Dunlap and Central avenues.
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