Az Business, in partnership with BestCompaniesAZ, has selected the Most Admired Companies of 2020, including Banner Health.

“Making health care easier, so life can be better.” This single statement is ç’s call to action, its guiding light and the basis for its success.

Banner Health’s broader organizational purpose is as follows:

• Banner can and will create a new model that answers America’s health care challenges today and in the future.

• Inspired to change the health care landscape in its communities – big and small – its talented and passionate teams care deeply about individuals who are responsible for the needs of their extended families.

• Taking access and delivery from complex to easy, from costly to affordable and from unpredictable to reliable, Banner give severy individual we serve confidence in their health care experience and its outcome.

Banner Health operates 28 hospitals and several specialized facilities across six states. The health system is the largest employer in Arizona and one of the largest in the United States with more than 50,000 employees.

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Banner Health

Most Admired Company: 2020

Top Arizona executive: Peter S. Fine, president and CEO

What it does: Nonprofit health care system

Admirable trait: Banner Health’s mission to “making health care easier, so life can be better” is integrated from leadership to more than 50,000 team members who deliver extraordinary care to patients, families and communities. Banner’s values include providing an exceptional customer experience, fostering innovation, maintaining focus and accountability.

Banner’s commitment to innovation led to the establishment of the Banner Innovation Group in 2019 that pilots ideas and funding and investing efforts, plus the expansion of their Telehealth offerings amid COVID-19.