Moffitt opens outpatient cancer center in Pasco County

After two years of construction, the first building on Moffitt Cancer Center’s Pasco County campus has officially opened and will begin treating patients on Jan. 26, the hospital announced.

Moffitt Cancer Center celebrated the grand opening earlier this month for its 120,000-square-foot Moffitt Speros Outpatient Center, a facility that brings comprehensive cancer services including screenings, imaging, infusions and specialty clinics to Pasco County for the first time.

It’s the first major milestone achieved in Moffitt’s efforts to build out its sprawling 775-acre Speroes campus, at 16828 Ridge Road in Land O’Lakes. The campus is meant to be an innovation hub where “science, technology and patient care converge in the fight against cancer,” a release says, merging biotech facilities with the cancer treatment and research that’s built Tampa-based Moffitt’s reputation.

“The opening of the Moffitt Speros Outpatient Center is about access, innovation and hope,” Moffitt President and CEO Dr. Patrick Hwu says in the release. “This facility allows us to deliver the highest level of outpatient cancer care in a setting designed around the needs of patients and families, while advancing our broader vision for Speros as a destination for discovery and lifesaving treatment.”

The new outpatient center, in the heart of the Speros campus, will also house the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation Proton Therapy Center, the first proton therapy treatment center in the Tampa Bay region. That center is expected to begin treating patients, including pediatric cases that don’t require anesthesia, in June 2026.

Funded by a $15 million gift from the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation, the new proton therapy unit is a ProteusONE sourced from Belgium — the most advanced form of radiation therapy available and one of only a few dozen in the U.S. It’s used to precisely target tumors while minimizing damage to surrounding healthy tissue.

Once complete, the Speros campus will include more than 140 buildings and support more than 11,000 jobs, the release says. The  =campus, larger than both downtown Tampa and Disneyland in California, is backed by a $1.1 billion capital investment and currently has an estimated $600 million in construction projects underway.

Moffitt broke ground on the Speros campus in January 2023 and anticipates construction to be completed in 2028. The development team includes Barr & Barr Inc. Horus Construction, Hammes Company and DLR Group | Tsoi Kobus Design.