Community health workers are saving thousands in avoided ED visits and hospitalizations, but they are still an underfunded resource in healthcare, The New York Times reported April 18. Community health workers have been around since the 1960s and tend to…
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UMC Health System and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, both based in Lubbock, Texas, have opened the UMC TLC² Foundation Cancer Center. The facility is nearly three times larger than the previous cancer center and features dozens of…
Missoula-based Montana Cancer Center at Providence St. Patrick Hospital — part of Renton, Wash.-based Providence health system — has received a $15,000 grant from the American Cancer Society to expand patient transportation and lodging services. The grant is part of…
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network has given grants to researchers at four U.S. cancer centers for initiatives aimed at improving lung cancer screening adherence. According to an April 16 news release from the organization, the researchers are: The National Comprehensive…
Mount Sinai Health System, based in New York City, will adopt an artificial intelligence-powered platform from SOPHiA GENETICS to expand its cancer research and genomic testing capabilities. The health system plans to use the SOPHiA DDM Platform to strengthen next-generation…
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The University of Chicago Medicine’s AbbVie Foundation Cancer Pavilion is expected to open April 2027. The pavilion will be the first freestanding facility solely dedicated to cancer in Illinois, according to an April 15 news release from UChicago Medicine. The…
Urbana, Ill.-based Cancer Center at Illinois has earned designation as a basic laboratory cancer center from the National Cancer Institute. The center is now the eighth basic laboratory cancer center in the U.S., the first in Illinois and the first…
Santa Monica, Calif.-based Providence Saint John’s Health Center — part of Renton, Wash.-based Providence — has received an estimated $100 million gift for cancer research, the largest philanthropic gift in the organization’s history. The gift will establish the Stanley H.…
New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health and the Northwell Cancer Institute have tapped Miguel Materin, MD, as system head of ocular oncology. As system head, Dr. Materin will establish a pediatric eye tumor program at Northwell’s Cohen Children’s Medical Center,…
Gastonia, N.C.-based CaroMont Health is investing $200 million to expand oncology services through three key projects. Four things to know: 1. The investment — the second largest in the system’s history — includes a new hematology and oncology physician office…