From outpatient care facilities and specialty clinics to infusion centers and research buildings, here are 15 health systems opening cancer centers or expanding oncology services in 2026:
- 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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