Lee Health Breaks Ground on New Fort Myers Campus

Lee Health recently celebrated the official start of construction on the new Lee Health Fort Myers campus. The campus will provide accessible, best-in-class care to a rapidly growing population in southwest Florida. Lee Health partnered with Flad to master plan the 53-acre healthcare destination campus.

Totaling nearly 560,000 square feet of medical space, construction is expected to be completed in 2028. It will include a 416,000-square-foot acute care hospital centrally located on the site with up to 168 patient rooms, 44 emergency department beds, and 10 operating rooms. In addition, the project includes a 125,000-square-foot medical office building with eight state-of-the-art operating rooms, which will be home to the Musculoskeletal Institute, as well as an 18,000-square-foot central energy plant.

Recognizing the risk of natural disasters in the area, the project planning team implemented lessons learned from designing facilities that have remained fully operational through Category 4 hurricanes. Resilient design elements for the Fort Myers campus include raising critical infrastructure above code-required elevations, raising staff parking areas to prevent widespread flooding of cars belonging to the caregivers in the hospital, and multiple wells to ensure uninterrupted operations in the event of loss of community infrastructure.

Lee Health Fort Myers Campus Master Plan

February 21, 2025