1. Sun Health Boswell Memorial
City: Sun City, AZ
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (623) 977-7211
Address: 10401 Thunderbird Blvd.
Description: When Boswell Memorial Hospital was built in 1970, Sun City was a long way from Glendale, Peoria, and the mainstream of the Valley. Reflecting the nature of the retirement community, Boswell focused on adult care and medicine. As the Northwest Valley has grown, Boswell has maintained that focus. This recently expanded 422-bed community hospital provides inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services as well as a skilled-nursing facility. Boswell offers an emergency center, an outpatient center, a cancer program, cardiovascular surgery, an intensive-care unit, and extended-care and rehabilitation services. The Heart Center in the hospital includes catheterization labs and office space on-site for cardiologists and surgeons.
2. Sun Health Boswell Memorial
City: Sun City, AZ
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (623) 977-7211
Address: 10401 Thunderbird Blvd.
Description: When Boswell Memorial Hospital was built in 1970, Sun City was a long way from Glendale, Peoria, and the mainstream of the Valley. Reflecting the nature of the retirement community, Boswell focused on adult care and medicine. As the Northwest Valley has grown, Boswell has maintained that focus. This recently expanded 422-bed community hospital provides inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services as well as a skilled-nursing facility. Boswell offers an emergency center, an outpatient center, a cancer program, cardiovascular surgery, an intensive-care unit, and extended-care and rehabilitation services. The Heart Center in the hospital includes catheterization labs and office space on-site for cardiologists and surgeons.
3. Sun City
City: Sun City, AZ
Category: Retirement
Telephone: (623) 977-5000
Address: 16824 N. 99th Ave.
Description: In this first active-adult community built by Del Webb, the prices range from $93,000 to $185,000. Although sold out, resale homes are available through real estate brokers and directly from owners, and there may be additional homes in the future. There are about 40,000 residents and 27,000 homes, with a median age of 75 in this amazing miniature city. You can visit anytime; make your first stop the visitor center.The Sun City Visitor Center, 16824 N. 99th Ave., located in the Bell Recreation Center (623-876-3040; www.sunaz.com/centers/bell), is chock-full of pamphlets, maps, fliers, and magazines describing the dozens of recreational opportunities, housing options, social clubs, and more for would-be residents. It’s also the place to arrange for a guided tour. Sun City’s 7 recreation centers are conveniently dispersed around town. A look around will tell you in an instant that residents in these parts don’t like sitting still. The centers encompass 7 swimming pools (6 outdoor and 1 indoor); 2 libraries; a variety of classes in crafts, hobbies, and fine arts; square dancing and ballroom dancing; fitness rooms; and bowling alleys. Add to that therapy pools, lawn bowling, tennis courts, miniature golf, and shuffleboard; 8 golf courses belong to the recreation centers and 3 country clubs. Check with the visitor center for specifics on the community’s amenities. The motto “Keeping Sun City Beautiful” rings true thanks to the Sun City residents who volunteer for the Sun City Prides. They spend untold hours picking up litter, raking the landscaped medians, trimming bushes, painting the trunks of the community’s 1,800 orange trees, caring for the automatic watering systems, and reporting needed street repairs. County government officials once estimated the Prides’ services to be worth more than $500,000 a year. The Sun City Sheriff’s Posse, volunteers coordinated by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, helps Sun City maintain one of the lowest crime rates for a US city of its size. Posse members help with neighborhood watches, search and rescue, and home-security surveys.
4. Sun Health
City: Sun City, AZ
Category: Retirement
Telephone: (623) 876-5350
Address: 13180 N. 103rd Dr.
Description: Many of the health care services in the Sun Cities come under the aegis of Sun Health, including Boswell Memorial Hospital in Sun City and Del E. Webb Memorial Hospital in Sun City West. Sun Health also runs a physician referral service, a community education program, and hospice and home health care services.
5. Sun City
City: Sun City, AZ
Category: Retirement
Telephone: (623) 977-5000
Address: 16824 N. 99th Ave.
Description: In this first active-adult community built by Del Webb, the prices range from $93,000 to $185,000. Although sold out, resale homes are available through real estate brokers and directly from owners, and there may be additional homes in the future. There are about 40,000 residents and 27,000 homes, with a median age of 75 in this amazing miniature city. You can visit anytime; make your first stop the visitor center.The Sun City Visitor Center, 16824 N. 99th Ave., located in the Bell Recreation Center (623-876-3040; www.sunaz.com/centers/bell), is chock-full of pamphlets, maps, fliers, and magazines describing the dozens of recreational opportunities, housing options, social clubs, and more for would-be residents. It’s also the place to arrange for a guided tour. Sun City’s 7 recreation centers are conveniently dispersed around town. A look around will tell you in an instant that residents in these parts don’t like sitting still. The centers encompass 7 swimming pools (6 outdoor and 1 indoor); 2 libraries; a variety of classes in crafts, hobbies, and fine arts; square dancing and ballroom dancing; fitness rooms; and bowling alleys. Add to that therapy pools, lawn bowling, tennis courts, miniature golf, and shuffleboard; 8 golf courses belong to the recreation centers and 3 country clubs. Check with the visitor center for specifics on the community’s amenities. The motto “Keeping Sun City Beautiful” rings true thanks to the Sun City residents who volunteer for the Sun City Prides. They spend untold hours picking up litter, raking the landscaped medians, trimming bushes, painting the trunks of the community’s 1,800 orange trees, caring for the automatic watering systems, and reporting needed street repairs. County government officials once estimated the Prides’ services to be worth more than $500,000 a year. The Sun City Sheriff’s Posse, volunteers coordinated by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, helps Sun City maintain one of the lowest crime rates for a US city of its size. Posse members help with neighborhood watches, search and rescue, and home-security surveys.
6. Sun Health
City: Sun City, AZ
Category: Retirement
Telephone: (623) 876-5350
Address: 13180 N. 103rd Dr.
Description: Many of the health care services in the Sun Cities come under the aegis of Sun Health, including Boswell Memorial Hospital in Sun City and Del E. Webb Memorial Hospital in Sun City West. Sun Health also runs a physician referral service, a community education program, and hospice and home health care services.