A young Chandler physician who was given a nearly 100 percent death prognosis from COVID-19 has made an extraordinary recovery thanks to a last-resort, lifesaving medical intervention at Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center.
Following a Maricopa County-wide trend of deaths from COVID-19 in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, a number of residents of Westchester Senior Living in South Tempe have succumbed to the coronavirus.
Wrangler...
Like healthcare workers across the country, Dr. Ronald Gagliano, a Dignity Health surgeon, was concerned about the shortage of personal protective equipment as the COVID-19 crisis deepened.
A U.S. Army veteran who spent...
In the midst of this pandemic and all the changes it has caused, heroes are emerging. Some are familiar faces—healthcare workers, first responders, teachers. Some are newly christened heroes, like delivery drivers,...
By Lee Shappell
In the best of times, securing safe, nurturing homes and support for the more than 14,000 children in Arizona’s foster-care system is a challenge.
During a pandemic, nonprofit foster-care support agencies...
empe City Hall, the ASU campus and Tempe St. Luke’s Hospital will be among sites of a Valleywide flyover by a formation of 15 aircraft involving Luke Air Force Base, the 56th and the 944th Fighter Wings, as well as the Arizona Air National Guard’s 161st Air Refueling Wing, in honor of Arizona’s front line COVID-19 responders.
Story & photos by Janie Magruder
They shared a room as little girls, the elder sister often moving around the furniture and decorations in her half of the room, the baby of...
By Michelle Hirsch
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people...
