Northern Arizona Healthcare is the largest healthcare system in northern Arizona, covering a service region of more than 50,000 square miles. Founded in 1985 and organised as a nonprofit, the system employs over 4,000 professionals, including more than 300 board-certified physicians and over 200 employed providers. Its clinical scope spans cardiovascular care, orthopedics and spine treatment, rehabilitation, cancer care, emergency and trauma services, outpatient surgery and primary care.
The system operates two flagship hospitals. Flagstaff Medical Center, established in 1936, is a 269-bed facility and a Level 1 Trauma Center serving the Flagstaff area. Verde Valley Medical Center, with 99 beds, serves the Cottonwood and Sedona communities. Both hospitals have received "A" Hospital Safety Grades from The Leapfrog Group. The network also includes outpatient surgical centers, a primary care clinic network and the Northern Arizona Healthcare Medical Group, the employed provider arm of the system.
Northern Arizona Healthcare describes its mission as improving health and healing people across the region, with a stated vision of becoming the choice, destination and integrator of healthcare there. Its two hospitals were unified into a single system under this shared mission.
