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Mayo Clinic aims to make Jacksonville southeast hub with $100 million facility

With the idea to develop Jacksonville into a health care hub for the southeast, Mayo Clinic will break ground on $100 million in construction projects this summer.

The first, and largest, project will be the Destination Medical Center, providing services to treat complex cancer and offer neurologic and neurosurgical care. The second project is a positron emission tomography radiochemistry facility.

Between the two projects, Mayo Clinic Florida chief operating officer Gianrico Farrugia, M.D. says Jacksonville will be the center of world class health care.

“At the moment, people will travel from all over the world to go to Rochester, Minnesota to get this kind of imaging,” Farrugia told WOKV. “Now they will be able to get it here in Jacksonville.”

It will take 40 new scientists and 250 other employees to operate the facilities once they’re completed. Farrugia expects construction to take 18 months.

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