From outpatient care facilities and specialty clinics to infusion centers and research labs, here are 32 health systems opening cancer centers or expanding oncology services in 2026:
- Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health will invest $22.7 million in renovations at the Trinity Health Grand Rapids (Mich.) Richard J. Lacks Sr. Cancer Center. The cancer center will remain open during construction, which is expected to be completed in fall 2028.
- New York City-based NYU Langone opened the Perlmutter Cancer Center — Staten Island May 1. The cancer center was created in partnership with New York Cancer & Blood Specialists, whose existing location was renovated into the new facility.
- Evansville, Ind.-based Deaconess Health System will build a new cancer center. Expected to open in 2028, the Cinelli Cancer Center will cost more than $150 million. The health system has raised $35 million for the project to date.
- Rochester (N.Y.) Regional Health broke ground on an $8.9 million oncology expansion and a $12 million outpatient imaging center at its Unity campus.
- Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health South Florida received $2 million in support of the Al and Jane Nahmad Women’s Cancer Center at Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute, part of Baptist Health Cancer Care.
- Gastonia, N.C.-based CaroMont Health will invest $200 million to expand oncology services through three projects: a new hematology and oncology physician office in Belmont, a new cancer center in Gastonia and a new radiation therapy center in Belmont.
- Northern Arizona Healthcare began construction on a $39.5 million cancer center at its Cottonwood, Ariz.-based Verde Valley Medical Center campus. The cancer center is expected to open in September 2027.
- Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine broke ground on a $122 million cancer care facility in Wheeling, W.Va. The WVU Cancer Institute St. Joseph Regional Cancer Complex is expected to open in fall 2028.
- Columbus-based OhioHealth began construction on a $226 million outpatient cancer center at its administrative campus, with completion expected in late 2028.
- Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital — part of Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham — received $35 million from Irving Oil to fund two cancer-focused facilities within the Phillip and Susan Ragon Building, currently under construction.
- Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai received $30 million to establish the Cedars-Sinai Cayton BRCA Center, which will focus on the research, diagnosis and treatment of cancers linked to mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.
- Hartford HealthCare’s St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport, Conn., received $15 million to expand and modernize its inpatient oncology unit. The donation will support upgrades at the Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute at St. Vincent’s, a care partner of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
- Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital received $10 million to establish the Ian and Jean MacKechnie Immunotherapy Lab within the Tampa General Hospital Cancer Institute. The lab will operate in partnership with the University of South Florida.
- NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health invested $2 million to renovate its oncology and infusion center, expanding the center’s capacity from five to 13 exam rooms and from seven to 11 infusion bays.
- Naples (Fla.) Comprehensive Health received $10 million to fund women’s cancer care services across multiple NCH facilities, including an outpatient infusion center and the women’s oncology surgical wing at NCH North Hospital.
- Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Avera Health received more than $10 million in federal funding to improve rural cancer care services. The system will use the funds to purchase a fixed PET/CT scanner for the Avera Cancer Institute in Yankton, S.D., and replace linear accelerators in three regional hubs.
- Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health opened a cancer center at Denver-based Saint Joseph Hospital.
- Los Angeles-based Keck Medicine of USC expanded medical oncology services at Keck Medicine of USC Irvine (Calif.), a clinic specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and blood disorders.
- Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger will begin a $2.5 million expansion of the Geisinger Cancer Center Pottsville (Pa.) later in 2026.
- Miami-based Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center — part of the University of Miami Health System and Miller School of Medicine — doubled its research footprint with the opening of its Griffin Cancer Research Building in fall 2025. The new building houses clinical care alongside research facilities and has an estimated total workforce capacity of up to 1,000.
- Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente began construction on a new cancer center at the Moanalua Medical Center in Honolulu, expected to open in 2027.
- Hendersonville, N.C.-based UNC Health Pardee, a nonprofit healthcare system managed by Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health, opened an outpatient infusion center.
- Louisville, Ky.-based Norton Children’s opened a resource center for cancer patients and their families. The center provides financial and nurse navigation services, educational liaisons and psychosocial specialists for patients and their family members.
- University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center partnered with the Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation to establish the UChicago Medicine Ralph Lauren Center.
- Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health completed an expansion on the Novant Health Cancer Institute in Thomasville, N.C., adding infusion chairs and doubling exam room capacity.
- Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health began construction on the Advanced Cancer Center and Care Complex in Modesto, Calif. The project will cost an estimated $380 million and is part of the health system’s larger multiyear expansion plan in the Modesto area.
- Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center opened the Moffitt Speros Outpatient Center on its Land O’ Lakes, Fla.-based research and medical campus. The facility is also home to Moffitt’s Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation Proton Therapy Center.
- Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital and Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham launched a joint ambulatory care network to serve Florida’s East Coast and expand outpatient services. The joint venture will begin with a radiation oncology facility in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
- Cleveland-based University Hospitals opened a new breast center at Painesville, Ohio-based UH TriPoint Medical Center.
- Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare Cancer Institute opened a head and neck cancer survivorship clinic.
- New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health opened a dedicated high-dose-rate brachytherapy radiation medicine suite at Lake Success, N.Y.-based R.J. Zuckerberg Cancer Center.
- Jacksonville, Fla.-based Nemours Children’s Health opened an outpatient hospital for patients with cancer and blood disorders in Wilmington, Del.
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