Saturday, September 1, 2012

Silver Cross opens cancer center in collaboration with U. of Chicago Medicine - Nurse.com

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross Hospital opened to patients on June 25.

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross Hospital opened to patients on June 25.

(Photo courtesy of Silver Cross Hospital)

Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, Ill., on June 25 opened its University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center to patients.

The $21.6 million, 20,000-square-foot two-story outpatient cancer treatment center is a collaboration between Silver Cross and the University of Chicago Medicine.

The partnership brings UCM cancer specialists and their access to advanced and investigational therapies to a community hospital setting, according to a news release.

The facility opened nearly a year after the start of construction.

The new facility will provide chemotherapy and radiation therapy, as well as access to hundreds of clinical trials. It also will offer a TruBeam new-generation linear accelerator system, which delivers precisely targeted radiation therapy, according to the release.

"This joint venture is an opportunity to bring a new level of care from one of the nation’s leading cancer centers to a first-rate facility right here in the community," Lawrence Schilder, DO, director of hematology/oncology at the new cancer center, said in the release.

"It means the people of our region will have extraordinary access to comprehensive standard-of-care and experimental cancer therapies."


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