HEALTHCARE

BACKGROUND

Healthy communities are made up of healthy individuals who have access to state-of-the-art clinical care and physicians at the forefront of medical research. Piper Trust supports programs that strengthen healthcare and introduce best practices, especially for at-risk populations and at critical life stages-early childhood, adolescence and older adulthood.

STRATEGY

improved healthcare quality. Piper Trust enhances the quality of healthcare for all Valley residents through improved healthcare facilities, enhanced training of healthcare practitioners and better healthcare delivery systems for children and older adults with the greatest needs.

Improved healthcare access. Piper Trust targets expanded access to healthcare by investing in projects that strengthen basic healthcare and mental health services for young children, adolescents and older adults. The Trust works to expand services to meet the healthcare needs of at-risk communities and the capacity of healthcare facilities to serve more children, adolescents and older adults.

MEDICAL RESEARCH

Special Personalized Medicine Initiative. Piper Trust made a major commitment to personalized diagnostics as part of a longer term goal of making Arizona a center for biosciences. The Partnership for Personalized Medicine, a collaborative project led by Nobel Laureate Lee Hartwell, Ph.D., president and director of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, together with the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University and Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), seeks to develop personalized diagnostics that place a greater emphasis on prevention and early detection. The Partnership has adopted a systems approach to bring together researchers, healthcare systems, insurers, economists and regulators to advance discoveries.

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