Burbank Leader - Thursday marked the groundbreaking of the Roy and Patricia Disney Cancer Center at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center.
The cancer center will be a 55,000-square-foot, four-story building and the third structure in a soon-to-be constructed medical plaza.
The cancer center will be a part of Providence St. Joseph Medical Center, unlike the other two buildings in the medical plaza.
Cancer services at the hospital are currently spread out in a way that sometimes has patients going from one side of the hospital to another in the same day to visit different specialists, said hospital spokesperson Dan Boyle.
“It will be basically be a one-stop center which will include radiation therapy, chemotherapy, medical oncology offices,” Boyle said. “But what’s really exciting about it is all the wellness programs that are available, too.”
Services at the center will include comprehensive cancer patient needs including medical, gynecologic and radiation oncology, surgical specialties, pain management, clinical research, nutritional counseling and a library and research center.
“It will include both Eastern and Western medicine,” Boyle said. “It will include acupuncture, message therapy.”
Cancer patients and loved ones may also receive spiritual healing, support services and several counseling treatments at the center, he said.
There will also be a personal appearance center for women dealing with the side effects of cancer treatments such as hair loss, where they can purchase wigs and other personal appearance enhancements.
A majority of the cancer center’s construction costs have been collected through donations, which now total approximately $36 million.
The total construction cost of the project is approximately $45.6 million.
More than $14 million was raised from contributions by film studios and entertainment industry representatives which included Roy and Patricia Disney, whom the center is named after for their $10-million endowment to its construction cost.
The center is scheduled to open in early 2009.
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