Sarasota Memorial Hospital officials recently unveiled plans for a $507 million hospital campus on a 32-acre site owned by the health system in the 4800 block of North Sumter Boulevard. It will be the city’s first acute-care hospital, and the third hospital SMH has built in its 100-year history.

When completed in 2028, Sarasota Memorial Hospital-North Port will be nine stories tall, with an adjacent 3-story medical office building. The hospital will initially open with 100 beds but will include three floors of finished shell space, which will allow SMH to quickly double capacity to 208 beds. The campus design is flexible with capacity to increase to more than 400 beds in the future.

The first floor of the hospital will include emergency, radiology/imaging, administrative and support services, as well as a cafeteria and coffee bar; the second floor will house surgical and procedural areas; and floors four through six will be dedicated patient care units with private rooms for admitted patients.