Maricopa Integrated Health System is comprised of Maricopa Medical Center (MMC), which is a major teaching hospital, Level One Trauma Center, The Arizona Burn Center, The Arizona Children's Center, 2 psychiatric hospitals, 11 Family Health Centers and the Comprehensive Healthcare Center.
- MMC, a 450-bed, acute-care full-service hospital has 20,000 inpatient admissions annually.
- The Level One trauma center and emergency department averages 175 patients daily.
- The Arizona Burn Center (ABC), a nationally renowned, regional burn center serves both adults and children. ABC is the nation's second largest burn treatment facility, and treats over 800 patients per year.
- The Arizona Children's Center is a leading children's hospital with both pediatric and a 40-bed neonatal intensive care units.
- Two inpatient behavioral health treatment centers with nearly 200 beds are located in Phoenix and Mesa.
- Eleven Family Health Centers (FHCs) are located throughout the Valley and serve more than 300,000 outpatient visits a year with an emphasis on primary care and health promotion activities such as diabetes education. Also, there are 7 dental clinics located within the FHCs.
- The McDowell Healthcare Center serves people living with HIV.
- The MIHS Complete Comfort Care Program cares for 1,000 elderly or disabled clients at home.
- The hospital-based Comprehensive Healthcare Center (CHC) provides patient support services such as dialysis, prenatal, newborn, well child care, well adolescent care, nutrition services and immunizations to community residents serving approximately 100,000 outpatient visits a year.
- The Phoenix Cancer Center is also located in the Comprehensive Healthcare Center.
Teaching Hospital. In conjunction with its mission to serve the medically needy, MIHS also addresses Arizona's physician shortage every day. As the Valley's largest teaching hospital, MIHS trains more than 400 doctors annually in 10 residency programs: Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Podiatry, General Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry, Diagnostic Radiology, Radiology Pediatrics and Medicine Pediatrics.
Health Care for All Citizens. MIHS is the health care provider for all citizens of Maricopa County. The health system serves people of many races and nationalities who come from diverse cultures and speak several different languages. Overall, nearly 70% of the customers are minorities. Of those individuals, approximately 60% are Latinos.
There have been 254 active research projects with over 10,000 patients participating in studies in the last 3 years. Most research is done in a clinical setting. Six departments at MIHS account for over 95% of the current research protocols. They are Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine (Cardiology, Oncology, Intensive Care), Surgery (Including the Arizona Burn Center and Level 1 Trauma Center), Obstetrics-Gynecology, Pediatrics and Psychiatry. Clinical research has been conducted at MIHS for over 20 years. In the last three years sponsors have included: Eli Lilly, Astellas Pharma, Zymogenetics, Ortho-McNeil-Janssen, Bayer, Schering-Plough, GE Healthcare, Pfizer, Medicines Company, Artisan Pharma, PuriCore, Mylan, Hoffman LaRoche, Nanogen, Takeda, MediciNova, GSK, Biotronik, Convatec, Stratatech, Bayer, and MedImmune.
The Department of Research exists to implement the research policy of MIHS. There are 11 FTEs with two biostatisticians, four staff members for Industry sponsored studies and contracts, two staff members in grants development, and three supporting the IRB. The Office is headed by the Director of Research who reports directly to the Chief Medical Officer, and who delegates daily operations to the Academic Research Senior Manager and the Clinical Research and Contracts Senior Manager. The Office of Research Accounting in the Finance Department provides additional support. There are six clinical department research units that are staffed by certified clinical coordinators and Research Nurses.
Jeffrey N. Joyce, Ph.D. is Director of Research for MIHS, and has had more than ten years of previous research administrative experience as Director of a State-wide Parkinson's center and Associate Director of Sun Health Research Institute. More than 20 years experience as an academic scientist working in a medical school hospital setting (1986-1995, University Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia) and a free-standing medical research institute (1995-2006, Sun Health Research Institute). During this time he has continued to consult for Pharmaceutical companies, and has expertise in intellectual property development. He remains active in the research community as a member of 30 national and international societies and as an adjunct faculty member at Arizona State University. He is the author of more than 110 publications, book chapters and reviews.
Mary Mauldin (Senior Manager, Clinical Research and Contracts) has managed academic and clinical research at the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences in the Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas and at the University of Texas Health Science Center - San Antonio, prior to joining the Research staff at MIHS. Mary Mauldin has oversight of all Industry sponsored research contracts with MIHS.
Janeth Mattox (Senior Manager for Academic Research) was Executive Director for Research Administration at THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE, University Hospitals of Cleveland, and prior to that was the COO for Sun Health Research Institute in Sun City, AZ. She has extensive experience in administering IRBs and is the IRB administrator for MIHS.
MIHS draws patients from entire Phoenix metropolitan area. Phoenix is home to 1,552,259 residents, and is the anchor of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, the 12th largest metro area by population in the United States with 4,281,899 residents. Hispanics represent the greatest percentage of patients seen at both inpatient (Maricopa Medical Center) or outpatient facilities, although they represent a smaller proportion of inpatients than outpatients. The racial/ethnic profile of patients sees at MMC is 57% Hispanic (42,000 annually), 26% Caucasian (19,000 annually), 10% African-American (7,000 annually), 4% Native American (2,700 annually), and less than 1% for Asian and other groups. The outpatient facilities see patients with the demographics of 62% Hispanic (117,000 annually), 21% Caucasian (39,000 annually), 9% African-American (17,000 annually), 2% Native American (2,600 annually), and less than 1.5% for Asian and other groups. Many of the patients we serve at the internal medicine clinics and community health centers experience some form of chronic illness, such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, arthritis, cancer, etc.
Cardiology/Vascular Diseases
Endocrinology
Gastroenterology
Immunology/Infectious Diseases
Obstetrics/Gynecology
Oncology
Pediatrics/Neonatology
Psychiatry/Psychology
Trauma/Emergency Medicine
Research Specialties
Obstetrics/Gynecology
With numerous operative suites, 20 labor and delivery rooms and a Level III neonatal intensive care unit that receives transports from across Arizona, Maricopa Medical Center is prepared to provide the comprehensive services needed for all types of obstetrical cases, including high-risk cases. The Labor & Delivery Unit is staffed 24/7.
Approximately 4000 women deliver at MMC each year, the vast majority are of Hispanic origin. Fifteen percent of all births are pre-term, and nearly 30% of pre-term births are very pre-term (
Women delivering at MMC represent the full spectrum of women with risk factors for preterm birth. Six percent of women are age 17 or younger and 10% are age 35 or above. The predominantly Hispanic MIHS patient population also experiences a greater burden of other health conditions that increase the risk of preterm births, such as overweight/obesity, diabetes, and hypertension. MIHS operates a prenatal clinic, an internatal clinic, an antepartum testing center, diabetes education classes and a refugee women's clinic. The Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology has a research staff of six, including physicians as the Director, Associate Director and Assistant Director of Research.
Burn/Surgery/Trauma
The Arizona Burn Center at Maricopa Medical Center serves all of Arizona and receives patients from many surrounding states and Northern Mexico. It provides care to 850 in-patients and 7,000 out-patient visits annually. This center of excellence is a 19-bed facility, all of which can be dedicated intensive care beds, is expandable to 40 beds institution-wide. This makes the Arizona Burn Center the second largest in North America. The Arizona Burn Clinic has 5 outpatient clinic rooms, a pressure garment measuring room, massage therapy and a dedicated telemedicine room. Emergency burn care is a dedicated 24 hours a day service. The hospital sees a large case load in Level I Trauma. The Department of Surgery Trauma Center has 2600 trauma activations per year with 1,000 outpatient visits per year. The general surgery caseload is 1,500 inpatients and 5,000 outpatient visits per year. A comprehensive Academic and Clinical research team of 6 is directed by a physician and experienced doctoral scientist.
Emergency Medicine
The Maricopa Medical Center Adult Emergency Department has an annual census of 40,000 and admits approximately 23% of the patients seen. The ED has 33 patient treatment spaces and 2 resuscitation spaces. The ED is staffed by fulltime Emergency Medicine Board-Certified faculty physicians and Emergency Medicine Residents. Approximately 6700 patients arrive via ambulance and 900 arrive via air-medical helicopter. The ED resuscitation area performs the initial assessment and stabilization of the 2600 Level 1 Trauma Activation patients who arrive by ambulance or helicopter. The ED has a physician director of ED research with on-site research personnel to facilitate enrollment of patients into clinical research projects.
Internal Medicine
The Dept. of Medicine at MIHS consists of 45 board certified faculty most with academic appointments with the Mayo Clinic and Univ. of Arizona Schools of Medicine representing general medicine as well as all medical subspecialties. Research is conducted in cardiology (including echocardiography for heart failure, device assessment and screening, pharmaceutical trials for lipids, heart failure, atherosclerosis), Oncology (Chemotherapy trials) and Critical care (Sepsis management).
Jeffrey N. Joyce, Ph.d.
Director of Research
Maricopa Integrated Health System
2619 E. Pierce St., First floor
Phoenix, AZ 85008
USA
602-344-5951
602-344-2633 (fax)
Jeffrey.Joyce@mihs.org
www.mihs.org/Research/
Updated: 11/17/2015
Updated: 11/17/2015
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