Three years into its anticipated seven-year timeline, construction is well underway on Massachusetts General Hospital’s massive new $1.9 billion clinical care facility on its Boston campus.
At over 1.5 million square feet, the Phillip and Susan Ragon Building will house the Mass General Cancer Center and the Corrigan Minehan Heart Center. Its two inpatient towers will contain 482 single-bed rooms, and the facility will include rooms for operations, imaging, infusions, and exams.
When the project along Cambridge Street broke ground in 2022, the hospital’s president David F. M. Brown called it “the most important” building constructed in the hospital’s history since its original building was constructed more than two centuries ago.
“It will create the environment our staff need, and our patients deserve,” he said at the time.
At a recent celebration of the last beam being placed on the building’s East Tower, Jonathan Kraft, chair of the hospital’s board of trustees, said the building will be the “flagship building” of the hospital’s parent organization, Mass General Brigham.
“It will be the signature building of our system and the signature building of the whole health care community in New England,” he said.
The building will rely primarily on renewable electricity and has a net-zero carbon plan for construction and operation, MGH has said. It will potentially house a new T stop on the proposed Red-Blue connector, according to the hospital’s website. Construction is set to be completed in two phases, in 2027 and 2030.
Stella Tannenbaum can be reached at stella.tannenbaum@globe.com.