The health company runs Dunstan Hospital, where the first scanner to serve the wider area will be based.
Ms Wills said there were still some issues to be resolved before Dunstan got its scanner and groups and trusts which usually supported the Clyde hospital would be asked to help with funding towards the project.
The Southern District Health Board has committed to providing future operational funding for the scanners, at $200,000 a year for the first five years and then $300,000 a year for the next two years.
"As we said at the public meetings last year, we're hoping not to ask individuals to dip into their pockets for this," Ms Wills said.
Like the $3 million worth of chattels at the hospital, the Dunstan scanner would be owned by Central Otago Health Inc, the sole shareholder of the health company, she said.
"We're very much looking forward to the time when people in the wider area no longer have to travel to Invercargill or Dunedin for a scan." While the Wakatipu and Central Otago health groups welcomed the scanner decision, one Queenstown businessman said it was "not the best deal" for Queenstown.
Queenstown Chamber of Commerce chairman and Remarkables Park Ltd (RPL) director Alastair Porter said it was good news Queenstown would "eventually" get a scanner and he hoped the board would honour its commitment to put a scanner in Queenstown within two years.
However, the board's decision did not sit with independent economic analysis, commissioned by RPL about 18 months ago, which "clearly showed" the best location for a scanner was at Frankton because of the resort's growing population.
Wakatipu Health Reference Group chairwoman and Queenstown Lakes Mayor Vanessa van Uden said it was accepted introducing a scanner to Queenstown needed to be part of "an overall site redevelopment of Lakes District Hospital".
The group would continue to work with the board to "push for the installation of a scanner in the Wakatipu as early as possible", she said.
Central Otago Mayor Tony Lepper was pleased the board had confirmed the recommendation.
"I think it's a sensible decision and a great one; now let's get on with it," he said.
