Impact Report | HonorHealth Military Partnership
Your visionary support fuels hands-on training
Your generosity provides life-saving tools, training and tactics
As experts in trauma medicine with the HonorHealth Military Partnership, our calling is simple, yet urgent — to prepare those who stand on the frontlines of crisis to save lives when seconds matter.
With your continued support, we have been able to carry this mission into local hospitals, underserved communities and military training grounds across Arizona and beyond.
Your generous gift to the HonorHealth Military Partnership that improves, extends and saves lives. Because of you, our service members and first responders have the tools, training and confidence they need to save lives when it matters most. Each skill learned and each life saved is a reflection of your kindness and compassion.
You make all the difference, and for that, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
Your impact
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Philanthropy in action!
In 2025 alone, HonorHealth Military Partnership trained more than 300 personnel locally in trauma-based medicine and coordinated a hospital-wide mock trauma scenario, ensuring our own teams are ready when tragedy strikes.
We also took this expertise on the road, delivering 26 off-site trainings to more than 750 first responders across more than 25 locations. From small, rural Arizona towns like Green Valley and Pinetop, to federal partners such as the FBI, U.S. Marshals, Border Patrol and Arizona DPS SWAT, our outreach brought life-saving knowledge and confidence to those who respond when communities are most vulnerable.
Our military mission remained at the heart of our work. At Camp Navajo and Operation Desert Hammer, we joined forces with National Guard and Reserve medics, firefighters and trauma surgeons to prepare for the harshest realities of combat care. During one exercise, Black Hawk helicopters delivered casualties directly from a combat zone — a powerful reminder of the urgency and gravity of our training.
As one trauma surgeon shared, “It’s about bringing together our trauma team, ER staff, operating room staff and ICU personnel for one singular focus — saving lives.”
None of this would be possible without the generosity of donors. Because of you, we placed life-saving tools, including ventilator simulators, IV training arms, tourniquets and first aid kits, directly into the hands of those who need them most.
We offered our Readiness Skills Sustainment Training Program, where 934 military medical professionals gained hands-on trauma education, clinical rotations, and continuing education credits.
Because of You!
The HonorHealth Military Partnership program exists solely because of philanthropy. Every gift reaches into communities and combat zones alike, giving responders the skills, the tools and the confidence to save lives that might otherwise be lost.
For us, the most meaningful measure of success is not in numbers trained or equipment distributed, but in the trust built and the gratitude we’ve received from those who now feel more prepared to face the unthinkable.
Your generosity is not just funding a program. It is fueling a movement of readiness, resilience and hope.
Together, we are saving lives!
The difference you make
As a nonprofit, community-based healthcare system, HonorHealth relies on your kindness and generosity to help provide the exceptional care you and your family expect and deserve. Every participant’s experience with the HonorHealth Military Partnership is made possible through philanthropy. Because of you, we remain committed to building stronger, healthier communities together.
When you give through HonorHealth Foundation, you support more than great care. Your contributions improve health and well-being, fuel medical breakthroughs, advance innovative research and transform lives across our community and beyond.
We are profoundly grateful for your visionary support and transformational investment in the future of healthcare!
Military Partnership Training Includes:
- Advanced practical learning with high-tech, lifelike human patient simulators called manikins
- Real-life experience during clinical rotations, at our nine hospitals, including three Level I Trauma Centers
- Simulation training rooms, including one set up as a battlefield medical aid station
- Readiness Skill Sustainment Training, required for military medical personnel annually
- Exposure to burn trauma management through a Valley burn center
- K-9 trauma care so they are prepared to treat our loyal four-legged soldiers and officers
What our heroes are saying
“Please continue this program! Totally amazing team. This was by far the best training I have received. The instructors were very knowledgeable and helpful. I highly recommend this course and know that it is greatly needed.”
— Medic, United States Air Force
Camp Papago and Marana
“Everyone was super excited about everything. Looking forward to using it in training.”
— Blackhawk helicopter pilot, NG Papago and Marana
From Desert Hammer
“This particular exercise allowed us to practice what we call a ‘hot drop,’ simulating the handoff of critically injured patients arriving directly from a combat zone via Black Hawk helicopters. It’s about bringing together our trauma team, ER staff, operating room staff and ICU personnel for one singular focus — saving lives.”
From DVIDS (Defense Visual Information Distribution Service)
“HonorHealth provided real-time feedback to military teams, synchronizing terminology and protocols. They highlighted that many trauma care advancements, such as damage control operations and blood resuscitation techniques, originate from military medicine.”
“Very organized, very intelligent instructors with all their background history.”
— Air Force Medic
“I learned more here than I did at my initial TCCC [Trauma Combat Casualty Care] training.”
— Air Force Nurse
“This is some of the best training I’ve had in years, really happy I was able to participate.”
— Air Force Nurse
Download the Military Partnership Impact Report (PDF format)
Support
Thank you for your continued support of the HonorHealth Military Partnership!