Mayo Expands Its Tissue-Testing Facilities
Posted on: Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 09:01 CST
By Jeff Hansel, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.
Mar. 28--Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., plans to expand its tissue-sample testing laboratory to the tune of $22 million within the coming nine years.
The laboratory will evolve into a sort of satellite -- or "performing laboratory" -- of Mayo Medical Laboratory in Rochester.
This comes on the heels of breakneck growth at Rochester's MML. As of last fall, Mayo officials said the growth rate in Rochester was 20 percent per year, with more than 20,000 tissue samples tested daily.
"There's been huge growth," said Mayo Spokesman Lee Aase. About 500 jobs have been added in Rochester related to MML's JOBZ status since the company moved into the Superior Drive support center about two years ago.
The Florida laboratory expansion will extend the testing reach of MML and increase market share, organizers say. But don't expect it to slow the arrival of samples in Rochester.
"It's an orderly plan for growth. It's a long-term plan to better serve the Jacksonville community and to grow market share in the southeast, and so we wouldn't expect any decline in volume here, and, in fact we would expect it to continue to grow," Aase said.
Two new floors will be added to the Vincent A. Stabile Building on the Mayo Jacksonville campus. The clinic also plans to hire "nine pathologists and over 200 highly skilled allied health staff for the lab over the next nine years." Occupancy of the building addition is expected mid-2007, Aase said.
The laboratory performs tests not normally done on a routine basis in hospitals or in private laboratories, according to a Mayo statement.
The statement says MML "has an exhaustive catalog of hundreds of these specialized tests that help provide crucial information to doctors who care for patients with many different diseases."
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