Construction Starts on St. Joseph's Hospital-South

Ground was broken on the new St. Joseph's Hospital-South, the first not-for-profit hospital built to serve southern Hillsborough County, Fla.

The facility, part of BayCare Health System, is expected to open in 2015 and will be a full-service hospital offering a wide range of services from emergency care and women's services to surgery and intensive care.

The 72-acre campus will include a medical office building that connects to the four-story, 352,000-square-foot hospital for convenient access to pre-procedure testing and physician offices. The site also will be home to a 40,000-square-foot, freestanding physician office building, which is expected to open in 2013, with imaging and laboratory services as well as primary care and specialty physician offices.

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