New Medical Center in Orlando

Week of November 03, 2008

Ground was broken recently for a $717 million, full-service Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) medical center in Orlando, at a 65-acre site off State Route 417 and Lake Nona Boulevard in Orlando, Fla. When it opens in 2012, the one million-plus square-foot facility will have 134 inpatient beds in addition to a 120-bed community living center and 60-bed residential rehabilitation program. The hospital will have two linear accelerators for radiation oncology, eight operating rooms, two cardiac catheterization laboratories, two magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines and several computed tomography (CT) scanners. An outpatient clinic and a veterans benefits office also are planned at the site. The facility will be across the street from the University of Central Florida's College of Medicine and Health Sciences campus.

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