HonorHealth opens medical gym

HonorHealth said it will open a 40,000-square-foot medical fitness center in north Scottsdale in August 2026. (ktar.com) (honorhealth.com) The facility, called HonorHealth Medical Fitness, will sit inside the new HonorHealth Pima Center at 8435 N. Pima Center Pkwy., near Loop 101 and Pima Road. The broader campus totals 100,000 square feet. (honorhealth.com 1) (honorhealth.com 2) HonorHealth said the center will pair gym access with medical oversight, with programs tied to rehabilitation and specialty care teams rather than a standard health-club model. Dr. David Carfagno, the system’s medical director for the project, said every program will operate with medical oversight. (ktar.com) The equipment list looks more like a rehab-and-wellness hub than a neighborhood gym. HonorHealth said the site will include heated lap and therapy pools, an indoor track, group exercise studios, sauna space and pickleball courts. (ktar.com) (honorhealth.com) The Pima Center is opening in phases. HonorHealth says some third-floor specialty and preventive care offices begin seeing patients in late May 2026, while the full grand opening is scheduled for fall 2026. (honorhealth.com) Those early services include bariatrics, orthopedics, a cardiometabolic program and sports cardiology with Atria Heart, sports medicine with Arizona Sports Medicine, spine care, imaging and gynecology. Sports physical therapy is listed as coming with later phases. (honorhealth.com) HonorHealth has framed the Scottsdale project as a long-planned attempt to combine outpatient medicine, fitness, nutrition and preventive services in one place. When it broke ground in December 2022, the system described the campus as a way to connect medical care with whole-body wellness. (honorhealth.com) The timeline has shifted since that 2022 announcement. HonorHealth originally said the Pima Center was slated to open in the second quarter of 2024; the current site now shows phased openings starting in May 2026, with medical fitness in August and a full opening in fall 2026. (honorhealth.com 1) (honorhealth.com 2) HonorHealth’s pitch is that patients can move from treatment to supervised exercise without leaving the campus. The system’s Whole Health Institute says medical fitness will sit at the center of the building alongside preventive and specialty care. (honorhealth.com 1) (honorhealth.com 2) If the rollout stays on schedule, Scottsdale gets the new clinic space in late May and the medical gym in August, with the full Pima Center opening later in fall 2026. (honorhealth.com)