One of the largest healthcare systems in Arizona wants to build a new ambulatory care center and hospital in Flagstaff.
Northern Arizona Healthcare, headquartered at 1200 North Beaver Street in the downtown Flagstaff Medical Center, hopes to see construction of the facilities on a 188-acre campus near Fort Tuthill, nearly 7 miles to the south.
As planned, the ambulatory care center would measure up to 175,000 square feet, with the hospital coming in at around 700,000 square feet.
Additional plans call for the building of a hotel with nearly 200 rooms and both restaurant and retail space.
It is expected that it will cost at least $750 million for the project, which NAH itself will fund.
NAH has conducted a series of public input meetings on the project and has also submitted plans for approval to the City of Flagstaff.
If all goes well, work could begin on the new campus next summer with a 2024 completion date for the ambulatory care center. Work on the hospital would most likely be finished two years later.
Plans additionally call for the eventual closing of the Flagstaff Medical Center, which is nearly 50 years old.
NAH serves well over half a million people in the northern half of Arizona and is classified by the Ann Arbor-based Truven Health Analytics as one of the top small healthcare systems in the country.
By Garry Boulard
