Newswise — PHOENIX – Mayo Clinic has been granted approval for construction of a 217,200 square-foot building on its Phoenix campus, a major expansion that will create a single-site, integrated Cancer Center. Mayo Clinic Cancer Center is the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center with a multi-site, national presence, which allows us to serve a broad and diverse group of patients. The $130 million facility features three additional floors of clinical and office space that will be built above the first level of Mayo Clinic’s Proton Beam Therapy Building currently under construction. Proton beam therapy is a precise form of cancer treatment that allows greater control over radiation doses, using pencil-beam scanning. Project design and programming for the new building is expected to take three years, with staged occupancy expected in 2015.
The project signals a significant milestone for Mayo Clinic in Arizona in that it creates a consolidated and integrated Cancer Center on one campus, providing enhanced convenience for cancer patients and their families. Pivotal to that consolidation will be the relocation of the Hematology/Oncology Department from its current location on the Scottsdale campus to the new building on the Phoenix campus. Other cancer-related units such as Bone Marrow Transplant, Chemotherapy Infusion and Research will also transfer to the new building. Consolidation to one campus will also include relocation of 32 chemotherapy infusion stations currently located on the Scottsdale campus to the new cancer facility, as well as the planned addition of 18 more infusion stations.
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center to be Consolidated on Phoenix Campus
The vertical expansion project will also include three outpatient operating rooms, expanded space for Transplant and relocation of some clinical units from the adjacent Mayo Clinic Hospital to create 12 more inpatient hospital beds.
Future plans include moving other units from the hospital to create space for 24 additional hospital beds.
Exam rooms in the new cancer building will feature a new design concept intended to accommodate the integrated team care concept for the evaluation and treatment of patients. Also planned for the convenience of patients are kiosks that will allow virtual check-in and access to timely information. “Our patients will welcome this single-site Cancer Center, because under one roof we will be able to leverage personalized, comprehensive cancer care that includes medical and surgical oncology, infusion and chemotherapy, proton beam therapy and cancer research,” said Wyatt W. Decker, M.D., CEO, Mayo Clinic in Arizona. “This project firmly aligns Mayo Clinic’s strategic focus in cancer care and provides patients a destination for innovative, world-class cancer treatment in the Southwest.”
“This is great news for Mayo Clinic, for Phoenix and all cancer patients in the Valley and beyond,” said Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton. “This project will have a significant economic impact in Phoenix in terms of job creation and helps confirm the Phoenix area’s reputation for being a destination for health care and scientific research. This is timely, considering our region anticipates unprecedented growth over the next 10 years, creating more demand for outstanding health care options.”
Approval for the new facility was granted by the Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees at its meeting on Aug. 10, 2012. ###
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BACKGROUND
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center to be consolidated on the Phoenix campus
On Aug. 10, 2012, the Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees approved an additional three additional floors of clinical and office space to the Proton Beam Therapy building construction underway on the Phoenix campus of Mayo Clinic. This important strategic initiative will create a consolidated and integrated space for the Arizona campus of the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, providing enhanced conveniences and expanded services for patients and their families.
Highlights of the new project include:
• The $130 million expansion project consists of 217,200 square feet above the first level of the Proton Beam Therapy Building on three additional floors for clinical and office space. Construction began on the 100,000 square-foot Proton Beam Therapy building in Dec. 2011.
• This expansion project provides space needed to consolidate Mayo Clinic departments and services to create a single-site, comprehensive cancer facility and provide space for future growth (relocating departments and staff from areas at both the Scottsdale and Phoenix campuses; adding space for a new pharmacy, laboratory, endoscopy and radiology services and a second cafeteria)
• 1,000 jobs - The expansion and consolidation of the cancer center services is expected to add 820 new jobs at Mayo Clinic over 10 years (92 physicians, 728 allied health staff); the Proton Beam Therapy program will add 130 staff including 10 physicians and 12 physicists from now until 2016
• An outpatient unit in Mayo Clinic Hospital will relocate to the new building, creating space for 12 inpatient beds
• Initial plans call for building three outpatient operating rooms and space for three future outpatient operating rooms
• There will be additional space for the Mayo Clinic Transplant Program
• Expansion space will allow other units from Mayo Clinic Hospital to move to the new building, creating room for 24 future hospital beds
• More than 1,000 new construction jobs will be generated by this project
Construction timeframe
• The expansion project is slated to begin with the design phase in 2012. Construction will be complete in the first quarter of 2015, with phased occupancy to begin after that
Cancer Care at Mayo Clinic
• Mayo Clinic Cancer Center is a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center with three campuses, in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Ariz.; Jacksonville, Fla.; and Rochester, Minn.
• Mayo’s campus in Arizona is home to outstanding internationally recognized physicians and scientists who collaborate across the full spectrum of cancer research, from basic biology to treatment, as they seek ways to reduce the burden of cancer.
• The most common types of cancer treated at Mayo Clinic in Arizona are prostate, breast, melanoma, lung. o Our bone marrow transplant program has doubled in size and will perform more than 200 transplants in 2012. It is the largest program in Arizona
• Areas of focus in cancer clinical research include multiple myeloma, myeloproliferative disorders, leukemias, lymphoma, breast cancer, lung and other thoracic cancers, gastrointestinal cancers
Proton Beam Therapy
• Mayo Clinic is expected to treat 1,200 patients a year in Arizona with proton beam therapy when the program opens in 2016. o Mayo Clinic physicians and scientists will use the pencil beam scanning to treat tumors that are deep seated, close to critical organs and body structures. This therapy precisely targets protons to ensure they only treat cancerous tumors and spare healthy tissue and organs. Our program will differ from most other proton therapy programs in the U.S. because it will feature intensity modulated proton beam therapy scanning exclusively, which is an advancement over traditional radiotherapy because its beam conforms more exactly to the tumor better sparing surrounding tissue.
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