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Rush University Cancer Center
Cancer can be overwhelming; cancer treatment shouldn’t be. To make receiving cancer care more manageable and comfortable, and to enhance caregivers’ ability to provide the best care for our patients, Rush opened the new outpatient cancer center at the Rush University Cancer Center in 2011. Located on the 10th floor of the Professional Building, the new center tripled the size of the previous center.
Cancer care often involves multiple care providers, such as medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, surgeons and psychologists, and more than one type of treatment. The new outpatient cancer center provides enough room to place most of Rush’s cancer care providers and cancer treatment services side by side in a single location.
In addition, the new center has 15 consultation rooms, compared to the three in the previous center, which are used both for physicians’ collaborations and meetings with patients and families. The center also includes dedicated space for each of the Coleman Foundation Comprehensive Cancer Clinics.
The new outpatient cancer center also includes the following features:
- A chemotherapy area with 56 infusion stations, 20 of them private, compared to a total of 36 stations in all in the current center.
- Room for the Cancer Integrative Medicine Program’s complementary therapies, such as nutritional counseling, psychosocial counseling, massage therapy and acupuncture, which promote patients’ sense of well-being and maintain their quality of life.
- State-of-the-art patient exam and procedure rooms equipped with technology that allows physicians and patients to review electronic records and diagnostic tests together. There are 45 exam rooms, 15 patient consultation rooms and three procedure rooms, including designated rooms for diagnostic gynecologic and bone marrow procedures.