The city issued a permit July 11 for Fickling Construction Inc. of Jacksonville to renovate space at Mayo Clinic in Florida to relocate its transplant team offices at a project cost of almost $5.7 million.
The permit is for about 26,000 square feet of space on the fourth floor of the Davis Building at the Mayo campus at 4500 San Pablo Road S.
Plans indicate existing outpatient exams room will be renovated and the existing office layouts will be reconfigured to accommodate the relocation of Mayo’s transplant team.
HKS Architects Inc. of Orlando is the architect.
Mayo Communications Manager Kevin Punsky said July 12 work is underway.
He said Mayo anticipates completion late this year for a first-quarter 2024 opening.
“The entire solid organ transplant team will be relocated to this new area from where they are now on Mayo 3rd floor,” he said of the Mayo Hospital.
He said the team is moving to free up and expand hospital space.
The scope includes a new door opening connecting the Davis Building and Mayo Clinic Hospital.
Mayoclinic.org says the transplant team performs “different types of transplants, from the straightforward, though serious, kidney transplant, to the most complex, multiorgan transplants accompanied by rare disorders.”
The site says that more than 150 surgeons and physicians and hundreds of allied health staff, specifically trained to care for transplant patients, perform more than 2,000 solid organ and bone marrow transplants every year in Mayo Clinics in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota.
“Mayo Clinic has preeminent adult and pediatric transplant programs, offering heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, lung, hand, face, and blood and bone marrow transplant services,” it says.
It says Mayo doctors performed their first clinical transplant in 1963.