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Tucson Healthcare Facilities

One could argue that healthcare put Tucson on the map, in a modern marketing sense. In the early 1900s, the city touted its healing arid climate, and tuberculosis patients and asthma sufferers flocked here. That warm, dry weather is also indirectly responsible for Tucson’s modern healthcare boom: Many, especially senior citizens, have moved here from colder states, and medical centers have flourished in meeting the needs of a growing population.

Greater Tucson offers 16 hospitals and more than 300 healthcare agencies. The city is home to the state’s only medical school, University Medical Center, which manages one of the nation’s nine transplant programs. And Tucson Medical Center, which originated as a tuberculosis treatment center in the 1920s, is today one of Southern Arizona’s 10 largest employers.

Major healthcare facilities in Tucson include:

Carondelet St. Joseph's Hospital
Carondelet Medical Mall of Green Valley
El Dorado Hospital
Kindred Hospital Tucson
Kino Community Hospital
Northwest Medical Center
Southern Arizona VA Health Care Center
St. Mary's Hospital
Tucson Heart Hospital
Tucson Medical Center
University Medical Center