A four-year medical teaching hospital is scheduled to be built on FAU’s Boca Raton campus.

Senior Associate Dean of Biomedical Programs Dr. Michael Friedland, hopes that this new hospital will create “a good renewing supply of physicians in Palm Beach County.”

Friedland represents FAU in its partnership with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Boca Raton Community Hospital. The result of this partnership will be a 550-bed hospital complete with resident sleeping quarters and a medical library.

The new hospital will offer procedures such as open-heart surgery, breast cancer diagnosis and advanced cancer treatment.

To provide easy access to FAU Boulevard (which runs directly to the hospital site), the Palm Beach Post is reporting that a new I-95 interchange at Spanish River Boulevard is to be completed by 2013.

Construction of the hospital will begin in 2008 on the southeast corner of campus with the first phase slated for completion in 2011.