To be a Diane & Bruce Halle Arizona Burn Center provider means we’re singularly focused on easing our patient’s pain — physical and emotional — and helping them get back to the life they love. Our patients are very special to us.
The Diane & Bruce Halle Arizona Burn Center is one of the busiest civilian burn units in the United States. Patients from all over the country have trusted us with their burn treatment, and our cutting-edge research has helped burn survivors everywhere. For nearly 60 years, our burn specialists have collaborated across specialties to quickly evaluate and treat burns and wounds. We offer both adult and pediatric care, as well as robust inpatient and outpatient therapy to help your recovery.
The Diane & Bruce Halle Arizona Burn Center is the only facility with large rehabilitation space and aftercare concept in its wellness center.
Our burn team is dedicated to providing the best burn care in the nation. We offer a full spectrum of care through an experienced and compassionate team, including the highest number of burn-certified therapists in the world, certified hand therapists, and a certified lymphedema specialist, along with over a dozen burn nurse specialists.
The Diane & Bruce Halle Arizona Burn Center employs staff who developed both the national burn nursing and burn therapy specialty certifications that are now a marker of individual clinical excellence nationwide. It is the first Verified Burn Fellowship Program recognized by the American Burn Association (ABA), and its clinical team is tasked by the ABA to review therapist certification portfolios and verify other burn centers for the association. Not only is the Arizona Burn Center industry-leading in terms of its personnel and vetted clinical expertise, its capabilities are employed by the ABA to determine clinical quality throughout the world.
Since 1965, our physicians have made significant treatment advances that have improved burn care everywhere. Today, the Diane & Bruce Halle Arizona Burn Center is at the forefront of medicine, utilizing “spray on skin,” skin substitutes, advanced skin-grafting techniques and other innovative technologies to help patients recover faster, decrease pain and improve cosmetic and functional outcomes.
The center has pioneered use of this “spray on “ skin to improve patients care and reduce pain.
The center was the nation’s leading enrolling center for the approval of this fibrin sealant, used to stop bleeding and “glue” skin grafts on.
The center initiated a study to examine the use of this wound solution to clean burn wounds and kill germs to prevent infection. Vashe is now used at burn centers across the country.
The center received nearly $1 million in grant funding to lead a multicenter study to determine the best way to diagnose inhalation injury and examine the cellular changes that occur.
When to Refer
There are important signs of a burn or wound injury to be aware of to determine if you need medical treatment.
Patients with burns and other comorbidities.
Patients with concomitant traumatic injuries, or injuries that occur in other parts of the body at the same time.
Poorly controlled pain.
Patients with signs of potential inhalation such as facial flash burns, singed facial hairs, or smoke exposure.
All pediatric burns may benefit from burn center referral due to pain, dressing change needs, rehabilitation, patient/caregiver needs, or non-accidental trauma.
If you are experiencing a medical emergency call 9-1-1.
Our expert providers know exactly when your patients need the care of the burn center.
For more information on referring burn care patients, please refer to the ABA Guidelines for Burn Patient Referral
Community outreach is an important part of our work. The Diane & Bruce Halle Arizona Burn Center each year conducts many programs across the Western United States to educate fire, police, emergency departments and medical clinics on how to diagnose and treat burns. Many of the emergency medicine physicians across Arizona trained at Valleywise Health and have a solid foundation in burn care, including residents in training, medical, therapy, nursing, and pharmacy students, firefighters, EMTs, armed services personnel, and many others.
The one-year Burn-Surgical Critical Care (BCC) clinical fellowship offers four 4-week rotations through Valleywise Health’s partnership with Creighton University.
