The Sarasota County Public Hospital Board has selected Flad Architects to design its new cancer inpatient and surgical tower and outpatient radiation treatment center, and chosen general contractors Brasfield & Gorrie and CPPI/Willis Smith Construction to build the two facilities simultaneously over the next two to three years. The hospital board last month approved $220 million to develop a comprehensive cancer program to care for a growing number of cancer patients in southwest Florida. When complete, SMH’s new Cancer Institute will serve as a center of excellence that concentrates a widening range of fellowship-trained oncology specialists and subspecialists in our region and offers individual patients a collaborative multi-disciplinary approach to diagnose and treat to achieve the best possible outcome. The first two facilities in SMH’s master plan include the Inpatient & Surgical Oncology Tower, a 170,000-square-foot, seven-story tower to be built on SMH’s main campus and completed in 2021, and the Radiation Oncology Center, a 25,000-square-foot center to be built on the health system’s University Parkway/Honore campus and completed in early 2020. SMH will host neighborhood meetings in the coming weeks to discuss plans with interested community members and residents who live in nearby neighborhoods, and working with city and regional planning officials to finalize site plans.

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