The Moffitt Cancer Center has inaugurated Moffitt McKinley Hospital, a new inpatient surgical hospital in Tampa, Florida, US.
Spanning 498,000ft², the facility houses 128 inpatient rooms, 19 operating suites, 72 perioperative rooms, a diagnostic CT scanner, an intraoperative MRI, as well as two nuclear medicine cameras across its ten levels.
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It currently has an inpatient bed capacity of 80, which can be increased to 400 later to cater to growth in demand.
The new hospital is expected to accommodate a projected 65% rise in patient footfall and a 33% growth in cancer surgeries over the next decade.
At present, it is staffed by nearly 1,000 workers.
The hospital is located on 20 acres across from the Richard M Schulze Family Foundation Outpatient Center.
The Patient and Family Advisory Council’s input was used to design patient rooms, family waiting areas, and other amenities.
Additionally, the project emphasises recruiting minority, women, veteran, and service-disabled and veteran-owned businesses, pledging to a supplier diversity objective of $50m that has already exceeded $61m as of the end of last month.
Moffitt kicked off the project in May 2020 and will treat its first surgical cases on 31 July 2023.
Recognised among the 54 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, Moffitt has more than 8,500 employees.
