Mayo Clinic will spend $800 million to expand in Arizona and Florida in an effort to increase its patient surgery, treatment and parking accommodations.
Rochester-based Mayo said Wednesday it plans to nearly double the size of its Phoenix campus with a $648 million project dictated by patient growth and the success of its operation there.
Mayo's project in Phoenix, dubbed "Arizona Forward," will add 1.4 million square feet onto its existing 30-year-old Phoenix campus, making it one of Mayo's institution's largest expansions.
The expansion in Jacksonville, Fla., which will include a medical building and parking, will cost $144 million, officials said.
"Arizona Forward represents a pivotal and strategic step in accelerating growth and continuing to provide exceptional service to patients in the state and nationally," Mayo Arizona CEO Wyatt Decker said in a statement.
The Phoenix effort will feature 94 inpatient beds, five new operating rooms, expanded pre-operating space, 31 emergency beds, plus two additional CT scans and two additional MRI machines. It will also have larger spaces for patient dialysis, infusions, cancer treatments and neuroscience and transplant medicine. Lastly, the project will include new conference and research rooms, classrooms, pharmacy, supply quarters and parking.
Some of the new Phoenix areas will open by June 2020, with the rest finishing in April 2024, officials said.
In Jacksonville, where Mayo has a 400-acre campus, Mayo will add a five-story medical building, a 1,000-slot parking garage plus connecting structures. The 120,000-square-foot medical building will connect to the campus's existing Mayo and Cannaday buildings. Construction should be completed in 2021.
Eight new operating rooms will be added, plus space for cardiology, gastroenterology and hepatology departments. The parking garage will be completed in 2020 and will include a two story "connector" building with 25,000 square feet for retail and other uses.
Officials said the Florida additions were needed to meet growing patient demand that has surged in recent years. The Florida campus has announced $500 million in construction projects during the past three years that already added 520,000 square feet of building space.
"As a destination medical center, these projects deepen Mayo Clinic's commitment to providing our patients with unparalleled experience and our teams of experts with the latest tools to deliver serious and highly complex care," said Dr. Gianrico Farrugia, CEO of the Mayo Clinic in Florida, in a statement.
