What You Need to Know about Henry Mayo’s Master Plan

1. Henry Mayo’s helipad is currently closed –there are no trauma airlifts coming in or leaving our hospital today. Henry Mayo’s trauma designation requires that they have a helipad, The helipad is one of the first construction projects in the master plan.
2. Henry Mayo needs more operating rooms. The master plan provides more operating rooms so all surgery services can be expanded.
3. Henry Mayo wants to provide a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Henry Mayo. The master plan calls for a maternity center with private rooms, and a neonatal intensive care unit.
4. A new NICU will also attract additional highly qualified OBGYNs to the Santa Clarita Valley.
5. The master plan will allow Henry Mayo to build a parking structure immediately.
6. The hospital will lease half of the space in the first new medical building to house hospital administrative staff – that staff needs to be moved out of the main hospital to make room for a new and larger intensive care unit.
7. Proximity to the hospital is very desirable to most specialists and with the impending national physician shortage Henry Mayo will be able to compete with other communities for the country’s top medical school graduates.
8. Henry Mayo wants to give the community “Centers of Excellence” in such areas as cancer, orthopedic and spine center and the best imaging technologies, and can do this when the second and third new medical buildings are developed.
9. The Hospital’s master plan does not require the City to take private property.
10. The hospital will pay for traffic improvements needed.  The hospital will also provide the City with additional right-of-way so McBean Parkway can be widened.
11. Henry Mayo revised the master plan in response to their neighbors:
    • Reduced the height of all the structures on McBean
    • Reduced the medical buildings by 30%
    • Reduced the time frame from 25 years to 15 years
    • Created more open space in front of the hospital by moving a medical building away from the hospital entrance.
12. Henry Mayo’s goal is to meet Santa Clarita Valley’s health care needs while being a good neighbor.