Patients, staff and dignitaries broke ground Thursday on the fifth phase of the Huntsman Cancer Institute campus, an expansion that will add an eight-story center with a floor dedicated to women’s cancers.
Construction of the Kathryn F. Kirk Center for Comprehensive Cancer Care and Women’s Cancers, which will be approximately 205,000 square feet, will begin in January 2020. It will include 48 inpatient rooms, an endoscopy center, space to provide services for blood and marrow transplant patients, and an expansion of the institute’s Wellness and Integrative Health Center.
The new building at the University of Utah is expected to increase the number of annual outpatient visits from 125,000 to 180,000, the institute said in a news release.