Work appears likely to begin in the spring of 2026 on a project that will see the building of a $40 million cancer care center in Cottonwood, Arizona.
The project belongs to the big Northern Arizona Healthcare system, which is based in Flagstaff.
The new facilities, roughly 60 miles to the southeast of Flagstaff, will include upwards of 30,000 square feet of clinical care space, dedicated to what NAH is calling “integrated cancer treatment.”
That integration means that NAH’s other facilities in the larger Verde Valley will be combined into one central facility. In a statement, Dave Cheney, NAH chief executive officer, said that the integration will “provide better service to all oncology patients, including those from Sedona.”
The new facility will be more specifically located in the Verde Valley Medical Center campus off Arizona State Route 89.
Plans for the project come after Flagstaff residents by a more than two-to-one margin voted in November of 2023 against rezoning nearly 100 acres for what was described as a health and wellness village, an $800 million effort that would have included a medical center, hotel, and commercial space.
NAH is now hosting public information meetings to talk about the possibility of building a new hospital, although it has yet to say when or where that project will become reality.
October 27, 2025
By Garry Boulard
