Women’s Tower Opens at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona

A new patient tower dedicated to women’s health and wellness has opened at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona. The tower, adjacent to an existing pediatric patient tower, is part of a $151-million expansion project.

The tower, with modern patient care and procedural spaces, features:

• New entrance for women and children with a grand redesigned lobby
• 148 inpatient rooms, including a new labor & delivery unit for low- and high-risk deliveries, and 108 medical/surgical rooms dedicated to women’s care and recovery
• Large patient rooms with natural light, views, refrigerators and digital device connectivity
• Dedicated OB triage unit
• New C-section operating rooms, including support for women carrying multiples
• Adjacent access to the 76-bed, Level III NICU and pediatric patient tower
• New lactation boutique offering supplies and lactation services by board-certified lactation consultant nurses

The expansion project began in 2021, when existing shelled space was built out to bring on 24 adult acute-care rooms to meet pressing patient-care capacity needs that summer. Still to come is an ICU expansion that will be completed in the first quarter of 2024. The project team includes Cuningham and DPR.