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