Leading burn and wound treatment into tomorrow through one-of-a-kind integrated, enterprising care that prioritizes the patient and family’s ability to heal beyond the burns.
A Leader in Comprehensive Burn Care for Nearly 60 years.
Established in 1965, the Diane & Bruce Halle Arizona Burn Center is the first and only adult and pediatric burn center in Arizona verified by the American Burn Association and the American College of Surgeons. The comprehensive burn center, which occupies the fourth floor of the new Valleywise Health Medical Center, provides the newest research, technologies, and products for the treatment of burn-related injuries. Each year, the Diane & Bruce Halle Arizona Burn Center cares for more than 8,000 burn patients and admits more than 1,600 adult and pediatric patients.
The Diane & Bruce Halle Arizona Burn Center provides complete care to burn victims of all ages, whether their burns result from flames, scalds, chemical, or electrical accidents, as well as treatment for complicated skin infections and disorders, and for complicated wounds. Our multi-disciplinary teams also focus on our patients’ unique needs and distinct physical and psychological challenges.
Our treatment covers burns involving flame, grease, chemicals, electrical currents and accelerants such as gasoline as well as contact burns from exposure to superheated surfaces including asphalt and concrete.
A sizable portion — 20 percent — of our patients are children and teens brought in with injuries, including scalds by hot water, such as cooking soups, microwaveable noodles, and overly hot bath or hose water.
Our burn team members have extensive experience treating necrotizing fasciitis (flesh eating disease), a bacterial infection of the skin that can spread quickly and destroy infected tissue.
Our multidisciplinary approach successfully resolves the most challenging wounds, as well as acute and chronic wounds.
Our tenured team of specialists provide treatment for patients with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis syndrome (TENS), a rare and serious skin disorder usually resulting from a reaction to a medication or an infection.
More than 8,000 burn patients are cared for annually at the Diane & Bruce Halle Arizona Burn Center and more than 1,600 pediatric and adult patients are admitted each year. Patients also are seen in the burn outpatient clinic, located within the burn center. The facility is state-of-the-art and includes:
Our multi-disciplinary teams address our patients’ unique needs and distinct physical and psychological challenges. Since in-patient burn care can take weeks or months, we get to know and understand our patients and remain in contact with them long after their discharge.
This national verification by the American Burn Association and American College of Surgeons recognizes Valleywise Health’s dedication and commitment to providing high-quality burn care to patients from across Arizona and surrounding states. The comprehensive burn center provides the newest research, technologies and products for the treatment of burn-related injuries.
Minor burn injuries, usually due to hot liquid scalds or flames from cooking, recreational activities or industrial jobs. Severe burns that require surgery, as well as post-operative and traumatic wounds. Community-related incidents like explosions, large fires and other disasters. Summertime injuries caused by the Arizona heat, like burns from steering wheels, pavement and seating.
It may sound odd, but stay warm to avoid hypothermia from any skin loss. Do not use ointments, home remedies or apply ice to the burn! Cover the burn with clean, dry dressing (like a towel, piece of clothing or bed sheet). Extinguish flames or any type of exposure immediately. Do not pop blisters or wait to visit the ER, especially if the burn is larger than your palm. Never run if your clothing catches on fire. The “Stop, Drop and Roll” method has become a cliché, but it could save your life. For smaller burns, remove the hot material from your skin. Then, run the burn under room temperature water. Although this may provide temporary relief, it can cause a freezing injury on top of a burn injury.
If you are a provider and wish to transfer a patient, of if you have questions about care, please call 602-344-5726.
First-degree burns affect only the outer layer of the skin. These burns are red, painful, dry, and with no blisters. Mild sunburn is an example. Long-term tissue damage is rare.
Second-degree burns appear open, shiny, moist, blistered, and pink or red. These burns are painful and sensitive to touch. Second degree burns often take one-to-three weeks to heal.
Third-degree burns appear dry or leathery, white, brown, maroon, dark red or black. These burns destroy the epidermis and dermis and may also damage the underlying bones, muscles and tendons. Third-degree burns often take more than three weeks to heal or need skin grafting. There is no sensation in the burn area since nerve endings are destroyed.
