Lee Health recently celebrated a major construction milestone for its new Fort Myers campus with the topping out of the new five-story hospital and medical office building.
Lee Health partnered with Flad to master plan the 53-acre healthcare destination campus, which will provide accessible, best-in-class care to a rapidly growing population in Southwest Florida.
Totaling nearly 660,000 square feet of medical space, construction is expected to be completed in 2028. The 535,000-square-foot acute care hospital is centrally located on the site and will include 236 patient rooms, 42 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 a 22,000-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 5 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 Hospital
March 25, 2026