Energy-Efficiency of New Florida Cancer Center Makes it ‘Hospital of the Future’

The 192-bed Shands Cancer Hospital at the University of Florida in Gainesville, which opens Nov. 1, has energy-efficient features that make it “the hospital of tomorrow,” according to a release from Shands Healthcare.

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The 500,000-square-foot, $388-million medical tower, an extension of Shands’ academic medical center, features an onsite power plant, an air-conditioning system that can recover lost energy and irrigation and drainage systems that use reclaimed water.

Shands is now being considered for gold-level LEED certification, which few academic medical centers have earned.

Read Shands Healthcare’s release on Shands Cancer Hospital.

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