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South Bend, Indiana (May 13, 2009) — Michiana Hematology Oncology announced the location for their new fifty thousand square foot comprehensive cancer-care center that will support and complement five other Michiana Hematology Oncology cancer-care centers located throughout the northern Indiana/southwestern lower Michigan region. The two-story complex will reside on a six acre campus on Douglas Road in Mishawaka, Indiana.
Site preparation for the new oncology complex, scheduled to open roughly a year from now, will begin immediately. A ceremonial ground breaking will take place at the location sometime during the next few weeks.
“The development of this cancer-care complex on Douglas Road represents something significantly more than just a large new medical building,” commented Michael Method, M.D. MPH, FACS, FACOG of Michiana Hematology Oncology. “This will be a center of excellence that improves coordination between the regional medical community while dramatically reducing the amount of time and energy that cancer patients and their families currently devote to traveling back-and-forth between locations for screenings, consultations, treatments and the collection of personal medical records. Michiana Hematology Oncology will now be located near or adjacent to every major hospital in the region. And this particular complex will house every major medical oncology service under one roof and on one convenient campus.”
The new Mishawaka complex will offer every major oncology service, including PET / CT scans, patient and family education services, chemotherapy, infusion therapy, radiation therapy, radiological procedures and gynecological oncology services. Genetic counseling will be provided by Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, and a full-service laboratory operated by the South Bend Medical Foundation. Onsite radiation oncology services will be provided in partnership with Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center.
“At this same time” added Method, “Michiana Hematology Oncology is also building new state-of-the-art cancer-care centers in Laporte and South Bend, Indiana. The Laporte location will be near the campus of Purdue North Central. The South Bend location will be on the Memorial Hospital of South Bend campus.”
“The concept of an oncology complex where so many medical and community assets are integrated and housed under one roof, on one local campus, represents a major leap in modern cancer-care and service for this region,” added Method. “Combined with our existing cancer-care centers located throughout the region and our expansions in both Laporte and South Bend, this is the single-most comprehensive expansion in cancer-care for patients in this region in decades.”
Michiana Hematology Oncology’s new cancer-care center in Mishawaka will continue to offer patient access to enrollment in nationally recognized clinical research trials through the Northern Indiana Cancer Research Consortium (NICRC). In 2000 Michiana Hematology Oncology was instrumental in forming the NICRC, which is supported by six regional hospital systems. “Clinical trials allow our staff of fifteen oncologists the ability to bring local patients the latest treatments and drug therapy options available,” added Method. “This community is fortunate to have access to the NICRC and Michiana Hematology Oncology is the primary active participant in the studies conducted here.”
Michiana Hematology Oncology, P.C., established in 1968, is the region’s largest oncology group providing medical oncology, radiation oncology, gynecological oncology, and adult hematology services through six regional offices in north-central Indiana and southwestern lower Michigan.
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