Mayo Clinic hospital opens to serve the health-care needs of Floridians

Saturday, April 12, 2008

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 12, 2008 — Mayo Clinic opened its new, 214-bed hospital at 7 a.m. today and transported 67 patients about 10 miles from St. Luke's Hospital. The hospital transition, the result of many months of planning by Mayo and St. Vincent's HealthCare staff, involved moving Mayo's patients from St. Luke's to the new Mayo hospital and turning over operation of St. Luke's to St. Vincent's, which continues to operate it as a community hospital. The transport, which involved 20 ambulances from Century Ambulance Service, took about six hours. The first patient arrived at Mayo from St. Luke's at 8:35 a.m. The last patient arrived at 2:04 p.m. Mayo's new $254 million hospital, located on its campus at 4500 San Pablo Road, serves patients from Jacksonville and throughout the Southeast.

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