About Us
It is indeed a pleasure having you as a visitor. At Metro Hearing Services, it is our goal to help you understand more about the functions of the ear and the causes of hearing loss. As a patient at any of our five offices, you are the most important person and your success and satisfaction is foremost in our treatment of your hearing care needs. We are here to serve you, your family members and loved ones, and to make your experience with us, whether through our web site or at our offices, as pleasant and rewarding as can be. Your confidence in us is greatly appreciated.
Metro Hearing Services was established in 1980 to serve the growing demand and hearing healthcare needs of patients and their physicians in the West Valley. Throughout the years, we have grown to five offices located in Glendale, Sun City, Sun City West, North Phoenix, and Goodyear. Because Metro Hearing is Employee Owned and Operated, Be Assured you will always have the owner taking care of your hearing and balance needs.
We are proud to offer a complete line of hearing aids, including the the most advanced digital technologies. We strongly believe that the more choices we offer, the more people we can serve for any number of hearing loss needs. Whether you need a hearing aid that helps you hear high frequencies or low frequencies, or one that helps reduce the annoying effects of background noise, we can identify what is best for you from a number of products.
Our History
Metro Hearing was founded in 1980 as Metro Hearing Aid near the Metro Center Mall in northwest Phoenix with one staff audiologist serving the medical ear specialist community. As the name denotes, it was primarily a hearing aid retail establishment.
In 1982, Dr. Stephen Teodoro, Doctor of Audiology, joined the practice and Metro Hearing Aid became Metro Hearing Services considering it was more than just a retailer of hearing aids. It expanded to provide other hearing and balance products and services. Testing for the medical community was especially important to the practice at this time. Metro Hearing Services’ audiologists at one time were providing diagnostic hearing and balance services for up to eight ear, nose and throat specialists.
Metro Hearing Services became Metro Hearing and Balance in 2007 to represent the reality that the balance system had become an important part of the services the practice provided. Darryl Johnson, M.S., with more than 30 years of specialized training and experience in the vestibular (balance) system, has brought his unique skills to bear in providing relief for those who suffer from this debilitating impairment. In addition to the balance portion of the practice, Metro Hearing has had a strong pediatric department headed by Sally Teodoro, M.C.D., along with Dr. Traci Woods, Doctor of Audiology providing a valuable service to the pediatric medical community in identifying, quantifying, and treating hearing disorders in children.
Presently, Metro Hearing and Balance has six staff audiologists who work from five locations primarily in the northwest valley of the Phoenix metropolitan area. The audiologists are board certified by the American Board of Audiology which requires 20 hours of continuing education, more than double the requirement as the state of Arizona. As one of the 25 largest audiology practices in the nation, Metro Hearing and Balance incorporates the latest diagnostic hearing and balance technology to best serve the hearing and balance impaired community.