Mayo Clinic has broken ground on a 162,000-square-foot, $35 million outpatient care building at its northeast Phoenix hospital campus. The new facility will enhance patient care and convenience, and open up additional space on the Scottsdale campus for biomedical research activities and Mayo's cancer center.

The Hospital Based Specialty Clinic will be built at Mayo's campus southeast of 56th Street and the Loop 101. Construction is targeted for completion by the end of 2005.

The building, to be funded primarily by Mayo benefactors, will connect to the northeast corner of the Mayo Clinic Hospital, located on a 210-acre site. It will include about 29,000 square feet to serve more patients in the Radiation Oncology department, and about 133,000 square feet of shell space to eventually accommodate the transition of clinic-based surgical staff to the Phoenix campus.

Dr. Victor F. Trastek, chair of Mayo Clinic Scottsdale's Board of Governors, said the building reflects Mayo's 40-year master plan for developing facilities in Phoenix and Scottsdale.

One of the benefits of the new facility will be to enable surgeons to see patients for pre- and post-surgical care at Mayo's Phoenix facility, according to the Arizona Republic. At present, this is done at the Scottsdale facility, but surgeries are performed at the Phoenix hospital campus, requiring surgeons and patients to commute nearly 15 miles each way.

The groundbreaking marks the second locally for Mayo Clinic this year. In February, construction began on a new 110,000-square-foot research building at its Scottsdale campus to house laboratories for the Center for Translational Drug Development, a program of the Translational Genomics Research Institute.

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For more information:

"Mayo building will add to cancer clinic's efficiency," Arizona Republic, 04/14/2004

Mayo breaks ground on biomedical research building, 02/25/2004

Mayo Clinic maps 40-year path, 07/22/2003