Joanne Canaday, a patient at Banner Gateway Medical Center, remembers the first time someone appeared on the video screen inside her room and began communicating with her.

Banner Gateway Medical Center in Gilbert will close its pediatric unit on Friday as part of Banner Health's cost-cutting consolidations announced in January.

Banner Gateway Medical Center in Gilbert took a small step Tuesday toward potentially becoming a 500-patient-bed hospital.

A new hospital opening Sept. 18 in Gilbert will offer numerous firsts for the East Valley, including a spa to help moms-to-be relax while in labor.

East Valley residents will have a chance Saturday to visit what Banner Health officials are calling the “next generation” hospital, as they prepare to open Gilbert’s third medical facility.

Banner Health broke ground Wednesday on the first phase of its newest hospital — Banner Gateway Medical Center in Gilbert. At the southwest corner of U.S. 60 and Higley Road, the 165-bed hospital is scheduled to open in fall 2007. "Banner Gateway Medical Center represents a $189 million investment in medical excellence in the East Valley," said Becky Kuhn, the hospital’s chief executive.

Banner Health broke ground Wednesday on the first phase of its newest hospital — Banner Gateway Medical Center in Gilbert. At the southwest corner of U.S. 60 and Higley Road, the 165-bed hospital is scheduled to open in fall 2007.

Registration is open for the 13th annual cardiac care conference, hosted by Banner Health and GateWay Community College, 108 N. 40 St. in Phoenix. The day long event will feature several healthcare experts from across the Valley covering a variety of topics related to cardiac patient care.

Registration is open for the 13th annual cardiac care conference, hosted by Banner Health and GateWay Community College, 108 N. 40 St. in Phoenix. The day long event will feature several healthcare experts from across the Valley covering a variety of topics related to cardiac patient care.

A helicopter flight school opened Wednesday at Williams Gateway Airport in Mesa, the latest addition in what figures to be one of the major employment hubs in the growing south East Valley.

Arizona’s largest health care provider and one of the largest districts of community colleges in the nation have teamed up to help alleviate a shortage of skilled health care workers in the state.

Banner Gateway Medical Center in Gilbert is looking for businesses and community members to help start a new holiday tradition.

The ever-expanding Gateway Tour is on the move again. This time the Scottsdale-based minitour is setting up shop in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Williams Gateway is becoming a real airport. The emerging Mesa air hub — for a half-century the centerpiece of a thriving Air Force base that ended up a casualty of the nationwide base closures of the 1990s — is poised to become a major economic engine for the East Valley.

It's been a banner year for babies at Banner Gateway Medical Center in Gilbert.