Cancer center breaks ground on new $400M facility

TAMPA — Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa has broken ground on a new $400 million, 10-story, 498,000-square-foot inpatient surgical hospital at its McKinley Drive campus. 

According to a news release, the center estimates that, over the next 10 years, its patient volumes will rise by 65% and cancer surgeries will increase by 33%. The new facility, with 128 inpatient beds and the capacity to expand to 400, will help meet that rapidly growing demand. It will also feature 19 operating rooms, 72 perioperative rooms, three MRI scanners, three CT scanners and two nuclear cameras.