The growth that Banner Health is experiencing is based on community need. There is a very clear and underserved community need from our perspective. That’s why we are choosing to move forward on these projects.

It was deemed that was the way to ensure patient safety. We stood by that decision at the time, and we stand by it now.

We are very excited as we move into 2006. These developments are only the beginning of what we anticipate for the new year.

Our decision was based on patient safety. We support it then, and we support it now.