Mayo Clinic to Construct 162,000 square foot Outpatient Clinic Building on Phoenix Campus

Wednesday, April 07, 2004

Media Contact:
Lynn Closway
Mayo Clinic
480-301-4222
closway.lynn@mayo.edu

For Immediate Release - April 7, 2004

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Construction is scheduled to begin this spring on a new 162,000 square foot outpatient clinic building on the Mayo Clinic Hospital campus in northeast Phoenix. The Mayo Clinic Specialty Building, funded primarily by Mayo Clinic benefactors, will increase Mayo's treatment capacity and enhance patient convenience.

A groundbreaking ceremony will be held Tuesday, April 13, at 9:00 a.m. on the Mayo Clinic Hospital campus at 5777 N. Mayo Blvd., (near 56th Street and the Loop 101) in northeast Phoenix. Construction is expected to be completed by end of year 2005.

"We are very pleased to be moving forward with the construction of the Hospital Based Specialty Clinic," said Victor F. Trastek, M.D., chair, Board of Governors, Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale. "Thanks to the support of our generous benefactors, we look forward to a wonderful new building that supports the vision of our 40-year master plan and reinforces Mayo's long-term commitment to serving patients here in the Valley."

The Mayo Clinic Specialty Building will be connected to the northeast corner of Mayo Clinic Hospital, located on a 210-acre site in northeast Phoenix.

The building will include:

• Approximately 29,000 square feet of space to serve more patients in the Radiation Oncology department. Located one floor below grade, the space will initially house two linear accelerators, enabling Mayo to treat an additional 60-65 patients per day. The space is configured to ultimately house four linear accelerators.
• Approximately 133,000 square feet of shell space (three floors above grade) will eventually accommodate the transition of clinic-based surgical staff, including the transplant team, to the Phoenix campus. This new location, adjacent to Mayo Clinic Hospital, will create greater efficiencies and convenience for patients.

Construction of the Mayo Clinic Specialty Building on the Phoenix campus will have the added benefit of reducing space constraints on the Scottsdale campus where the long-term focus will be on biomedical research activities and the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, as outlined in the 40-year Mayo Clinic master plan.

"For Mayo Clinic to provide the best care for our patients throughout the Southwest and nationally, we will continue to focus on the integration of key services to provide a high level of efficiency and patient convenience on both of our campuses," said Trastek. "We are grateful for the philanthropic support from our benefactors as we strive to fulfill our mission of being the premier academic medical center in the Southwest."

Mayo Clinic is a private group practice of medicine dedicated to providing diagnosis and treatment of patient illnesses through a systematic focus on individual patient needs. As a leading academic medical center in the Southwest, Mayo Clinic focuses on providing specialty and surgical care in more than 65 disciplines at its outpatient facility in north Scottsdale and at Mayo Clinic Hospital. The 205-bed hospital is located at 56th Street and Mayo Boulevard (north of Bell Road) in northeast Phoenix, and provides inpatient care to support the medical and surgical specialties of the clinic, which is located at 134th Street and Shea Boulevard in Scottsdale.

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