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Northwest Medical Center Sahuarita’s new tele-pulmonary program means that now, patients admitted to our hospital or receiving care in our emergency department can access specialized pulmonology care close to home. We are partnering with SOC Telemed, the country’...
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Tucson, AZ – Oro Valley Hospital announced the launch of a new outpatient program for patients with mental health and substance abuse conditions affecting their ability to function. The intensive outpatient program (IOP) offers care to patients who may need more than once-a-week o...
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We are proud to mentor and coach the next generation of doctors in Southern Arizona TUCSON, AZ – Northwest Healthcare’s graduate medical education (GME) family medicine program has been accredited by The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the body responsible for accrediting all graduate medical training programs for physicians in the United State...
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We are Proud to Mentor and Coach the Next Generation of Doctors in Southern Arizona TUCSON, AZ (July 1, 2025) – Today, Northwest Healthcare’s Graduate Medical Education (GME) Program officially welcomed 35 new resident physicians to Northwest Medical Center and Oro Valley Hospital. These new residents – who are joining the 25 upper-level residents already in the program – are div...
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Northwest Healthcare’s GME Family Medicine and Internal Medicine Residency Programs Mentor and Coach the Next Generation of Doctors in Pima County TUCSON, AZ (March 12, 2026) – Match Day, the celebratory occasion when graduating medical students learn which residency program they h...
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...llest professional potential. Today, we are proud to introduce two major projects designed to support and mentor the next generation of clinicians. The first, our new Graduate Medical Education (GME) program, will expand access to medical education and transform Northwest Medical Center and Oro Valley Hospital into a community teaching hospital system. “Our diverse, experienced faculty will guide residen...
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...ovided me with the right exercises, the right equipment, and the right attitude. It’s an amazing, amazing place.” Bob also worked hard to graduate from Northwest Transitions’ new prosthetics training program, which features intensive physical and occupational therapy to help patients who have lost limbs get the best functionality from their prosthetics. “Learning to walk again isn’t easy,” he says. “It’s...
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... with quality primary, specialty, and diagnostic care close to home. We partnered with Arizona Urology Specialists and others to create the new Tucson Urologic Surgery Center. Robust robotic surgical programs that raise the standard of care for general surgery, gynecology, orthopedic surgery, thoracic surgery and urology. A distinguished cardiovascular program, including a structural heart team and a car...
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... strong workforce, especially frontline nurses, technicians, therapists and other clinicians and caregivers, along with support personnel. These exciting benefits include a new student loan repayment program that allows employees with outstanding student debt to consolidate their loans, reduce interest rates, and benefit from employer sponsored payments. For most clinical employees, Northwest Healthcare ...
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...anizations such as Youth on their Own; Casa de los Niños; and Interfaith Community Services, we give back to the community throughout the year. We took steps to enhance our interventional pulmonology program, where the pulmonology team performed its 300th robotic surgery in 2024. Through robotic-assisted, minimally-invasive bronchoscopy technology, specially-trained surgeons can biopsy tissue, diagnose l...
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...onary illness need excellent care to help them return to their optimal physical and emotional well-being. That’s why Northwest Healthcare dedicates so many experts – and resources – to its heart care program. Ryan, at age 50 and in good health, didn’t expect to collapse with a sudden heart attack while he was out taking a leisurely walk in his Oro Valley neighborhood. He especially didn’t expect the kind...
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... week. About Northwest Medical Center Northwest Medical Center is a 300-bed hospital offering a full range of healthcare services including Emergency services, accredited chest pain and heart failure programs, neurology and neurosurgery, outpatient imaging, a nationally accredited surgical weight loss program, total joint program, spine program and stroke center (distinguished by Joint Commission with Go...
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...ll 469-8810. Northwest Medical Center Northwest Medical Center is a 300-bed hospital offering a full range of healthcare services including Emergency services, accredited chest pain and heart failure programs, neurology and neurosurgery, outpatient imaging, a nationally accredited surgical weight loss program, total joint program, spine program and stroke center (distinguished by Joint Commission with Go...
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...loor disorders. Many of these patients have said they are now able to get back to doing the activities they love, after only brief laparoscopic surgery. Northwest Healthcare’s robust structural heart program grew to feature nine cardiologists and a cardiac surgery team. Northwest Medical Center Houghton earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® as an Accredited Advanced Primary Stroke Center. ...
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...l surgery has come a long way in a short time. A skilled specialist – like Ejovi Ughwanogho, M.D., a fellowship-trained orthopedic spine surgeon with Northwest Healthcare’s Northwest Bone & Joint program – can address many problems involving every level of the spine. “Spinal issues can be disabling if not addressed,” said Dr. Ughwanogho, who performs cervical disc replacements; cervical and lumbar fu...
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...er recovery time, and offer better overall patient-reported outcomes such as pain relief. The technology will likely make it safer to perform more complex spine operations.” The robotic spine surgery program will add to Northwest Medical Center’s Joint Commission-accredited spine surgery program which includes minimally invasive surgery techniques, motion preservation lumbar spine surgery, lateral lumbar...
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...nging a new set of ingredients and a new mindset to the table was a commitment, so Northwest Medical Center partnered with The Humane Society of the United States to participate in their Forward Food program (which encourages society to focus more on plant-based foods as a means of creating a better food system). Forward Food provides an intensive, onsite training program with plant-based food experts. A...
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A medical emergency can happen anywhere – including, as Ben Thienes could tell you – 35,000 feet in the air. Ben, who is chief of staff for the University of Arizona Football program, was flying to San Francisco when he began feeling dizzy. As he walked to the back of the plane to try and get his bearings, he fainted – and cracked his head hard on the way down. “I woke up disorie...
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...Panel from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18, at the Arizona Sands Club, located at 565 N. Cherry Ave. She, along with general surgeon Anyul Ferez-Pinzon, M.D., and Family Medicine Residency Program Director Lyndsey Kramp, M.D., will present on their experiences in advancing patient care and choosing a career in medicine. Reserve your spot at this event . Northwest Healthcare offers Live Healthy...
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...ic in Rochester, MN, and Harvard University in Boston. In 2016, he was awarded the Distinguished Fulbright Chair in Medical Sciences, one of the most prestigious appointments in the Fulbright Scholar Program. “Joining Northwest Healthcare will allow me to focus on putting patients first,” said Dr. Khalpey. “I’m looking forward to working with their talented team to further advance the level of cardiac ca...
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...al, an interventional pulmonologist and critical care specialist, said it’s been widely used already, with 44 bronchoscopies performed in less than four months. Mittal works in the center’s pulmonary program, which Northwest has been bolstering for several years. Brian Sinotte, Northwest’s chief executive officer, said that when he came on a few years ago, there was a relative shortage of pulmonary speci...
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...s providing high quality care. This recognition validates what they do each and every day to help our rehab patients return to the activities they love.” The rankings were determined by using UDSMR’s program evaluation model (PEM), a tool that provides facilities with a composite performance score and percentile ranking drawn from nearly three-quarters of all IRFs in the country. UDSMR’s PEM Report Card ...
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...ient care.” The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade assigns an “A,” “B,” “C,” “D,” or “F” grade to all general hospitals across the country and is updated every six months. It is the only hospital ratings program based exclusively on hospitals’ prevention of medical errors and other harms to patients in their care. “An ‘A’ safety grade is an elite designation that your community should be proud of,” said Leah...
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...performance measures reflecting errors, accidents, injuries and infections, as well as systems hospitals have in place to prevent harm. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is the only hospital ratings program based exclusively on hospital prevention of medical errors and harms to patients. The grading system is peer-reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public. Grades are updated twice annually, in ...
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...ded our medical staff – recruiting more than 50 doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants. And, because we have our eyes on the future, we laid groundwork for a graduate medical education program to give the next generation of physicians plenty of hands-on experience taking care of patients. In short, we are part of this community, and we are committed to doing everything we can to provide ex...
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