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• Arizona Health Sciences Center (University Medical Center) - Arizona
• Arizona Memorial - Phoenix, Arizona
• Banner Hospital - Avondale, Arizona
• Banner Health Arizona - Phoenix, Arizona
• Benson Hospital - Benson, Arizona
• Casa Grande Regional Medical Center - Casa Grande, Arizona
• Children's Hospital - Phoenix, AZ
• El Dorado Hospital - Tucson, Arizona
• Havasu Regional Medical Center - Lake Havasu, Arizona
• Healthsouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Southern Arizona - Tucson, Arizona
• John C. Lincoln Health Network - Pheonix, Arizona
• Kingman Regional Medical Center - Kingman, Arizona
• LaPaz Regional Hospital - Parker, Arizona
• Maricopa Medical Center - Phoenix, Arizona
• Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale - Scottsdale, Arizona
• Northern Arizona Healthcare (Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Sedona, Cottonwood)
• North Phoenix Heart Center Cardiology Group of Arizona - Phoenix, AZ
• Northwest Medical Center - Tucson, Arizona
• Paradise Valley Hospital - Pheonix, Arizona
• Phoenix Baptist Hospital & Medical Center - Phoenix, Arizona
• Phoenix Baptist Hospital and Arrowhead Community Hospital - Phoenix, AZ
• Phoenix Children's Hospital - Pheonix, Arizona
• Phoenix Memorial Hospital - Phoenix, Arizona
• Scottsdale Memorial Health System - Scottsdale, Arizona
• Sierra Tucson - Tucson, Arizona
• Southern Arizona VA Health Care System - Tucson, Arizona
• St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center - Phoenix, Arizona
• St. Luke's Hospital - Tempe, Arizona
• St. Marys - Tucson, Arizona
• Sun Health - Sun City, Arizona
• Tucson Medical Center - Tucson, Arizona
• University Medical Center - Tucson, Arizona
• Valley Lutheran - Mesa, Arizona
• Yavapai Regional Medical Center - Prescott, Arizona
• Yuma Regional Medical Center - Yuma, Arizona

Paradise Valley is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, that is a suburb of Phoenix. It is Arizona's wealthiest municipality.^[5] The town is known for its luxury golf courses, shopping, real estate, and restaurant scene.^{[citation needed]} According to the 2010 census, the population of the town was 12,820.^[3] Despite its relatively small area and population compared to other municipalities in the Phoenix metropolitan area, Paradise Valley is home to eight full-service resorts, making it one of Arizona's premier tourist destinations. It is also known for expensive real estate.^[6]

It should not be confused with Paradise Valley Village, an official municipal designation, in northeast Phoenix. For instance, Paradise Valley Community College, Paradise Valley High School, Paradise Valley Hospital, Paradise Valley Mall, and Paradise Valley Golf Course are all several miles north of the town, in Phoenix. The town's name comes from the expansive area known as Paradise Valley that spreads from north of the Phoenix Mountains to Cave Creek and Carefree on the north and the McDowell Mountains to the east.

Residents attend schools in the Scottsdale Unified School District.

The Paradise Valley Unified School District is one of the state's largest, though like many other institutions with the name Paradise Valley, it refers to the Phoenix village, not to the town.

Phoenix was settled in 1867 as an agricultural community near the confluence of the Salt and Gila Rivers and was incorporated as a city in 1881. It became the capital of Arizona Territory in 1889.^[10] It is in the northeastern reaches of the Sonoran Desert and has a hot desert climate.^[11][12] Despite this, its canal system led to a thriving farming community with the original settler's crops remaining important parts of the Phoenix economy for decades, such as alfalfa, cotton, citrus, and hay.^[13][14] Cotton, cattle, citrus, climate, and copper were known locally as the "Five C's" anchoring Phoenix's economy. These remained the driving forces of the city until after World War II, when high-tech companies began to move into the valley and air conditioning made Phoenix's hot summers more bearable.^[15]

The city averaged a four percent annual population growth rate over a 40-year period from the mid-1960s to the mid-2000s.^[16] This growth rate slowed during the Great Recession of 2007–09, and has rebounded slowly.^[17] Phoenix is the cultural center of the state of Arizona.^[18]

Paradise Valley's motto, coined by residents, is "there is a reason we call this valley 'paradise'".^[1]

As of the census of 2000, 13,664 people, 5,034 households, and 4,163 families resided in the town. The population density was 881.7 people per square mile (340.4/km²). The 5,499 housing units averaged 354.8 per square mile (137.0/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 95.6% White, 0.7% Black or African American, 0.2% Native American, 2.0% Asian, <0.1% Pacific Islander, 0.4% from other races, and 1.0% from two or more races. About 2.7% of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 5,034 households, 33.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 76.1% were married couples living together, 4.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.3% were not families; 13.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.71 and the average family size was 2.98.

In the town, the population was distributed as 24.9% under the age of 18, 4.0% from 18 to 24, 18.8% from 25 to 44, 35.9% from 45 to 64, and 16.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 46 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.1 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $150,228, and for a family was $164,811. Males had a median income of $100,000 versus $52,302 for females. The per capita income for the town was $81,290. About 1.9% of families and 2.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.5% of those under age 18 and 2.8% of those age 65 or over. In 2012, the Forbes magazine named Paradise Valley's zip code, 85253, the 71st-most expensive in the United States. This ranking also makes it the most expensive in the state of Arizona.^[14]

• Michael Bidwill – businessman, prosecutor, and football executive. The principal owner, chairman, and president of the Arizona Cardinals
• Doug Ducey – politician and businessman
• Barry Goldwater – U.S. Senator and 1964 Republican Presidential Nominee.
• G. Gordon Liddy – Watergate Scandal and Nixon appointee
• Jay Grdina – American businessman and former pornographic actor
• Kliff Kingsbury – Arizona Cardinals head coach
• Sandra Day O'Connor – former Justice of the US Supreme Court
• Vernon Parker – politician
• Michael Phelps – American former competitive swimmer and the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 28 medals.
• Dan Quayle – Vice President of the United States (1989–1993), United States Senator from Indiana (1981–1989), and U.S. Representative of Indiana's 4th congressional district (1977–1981)
• William Rehnquist – Former Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court