Cancer Care Begins with Preventative Care
Our new Community Cancer Care Center will prvide convenient and coordinated primary and cancer care in one location. Key features will include:
- Fifteen infusion stations
- New and advanced linear accelerators
- Nurse navigators to guide patients through the entire care process
- 68 primary care doctors, radiation and surgical oncologists, and obstetrics and gynecology doctors – working together under one roof.
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Our goal is to provide our community with a continuum of lifelong coordinated care in state-of-the-art facilities located where people live and work. The exceptional service provided by physicians and staff at our new Mountain View Center has created unanticipated demand, particularly for primary care and cancer care. To continue providing the best health care without sacrificing accessibility, and to meet the growing need for cancer care in our community, we are building a new 120,000-square foot Community Cancer Care Center in Sunnyvale. This essential project will enable us to continue to recruit the best physicians and staff and to serve our diverse and aging population efficiently and effectively.
Coordinated Cancer Care Services
The new Cancer Care Center will be equipped with the most advanced radiation therapy, using the most up-to-date technology and employing the best medical personnel available anywhere. In addition, the new Cancer Care Center will allow us to enroll more cancer patients in clinical drug trials and treat gynecological cancers at a central location.
Occupying 40,000 square feet on the first floor of the new facility, the Cancer Care Center will provide patients and their families with access to specialists, radiation services, and surgical consultation at a single site. Experienced nurse navigators will guide patients and families as they consider treatment options, go through therapy, and receive support services from nurses and other professionals as part of our innovative Healthy Living program. The center will join existing clinical programs at other PAMF sites and will complete PAMF’s regional Cancer Care Program of Excellence —the first such program in our organization’s history.
The new Cancer Care Center will provide:
- Offices, exam rooms, and support services for 15 new medical and radiation oncology physicians.
- Specialized oncologists to treat cancers of the ovaries and uterus.
- Fifteen infusion stations, more than doubling the current number of patients who can receive chemotherapy locally.
- A linear accelerator to provide radiation therapy necessary for many cancers.
- Patient support programs, including dietitian services.
- Clinical drug trials as part of PAMF’s regional Cancer Care Program of Excellence.
Comprehensive Primary Care
Ideally, a patient’s internist, pediatrician, or family physician provides care coordination throughout his or her lifetime. Because the coordination of care involves prevention, management of chronic disease, and avoids expensive emergency room services, we believe that primary care is the best health care investment any community can make. Historically, we have provided primary care for half of the residents in our community. As this population diversifies, ages, and grows, we must adjust to keep pace.
The Primary Care Center at our new Sunnyvale facility will help ensure that we continue to attract the best primary care physicians by providing space for 60 new physicians and an environment of close collegiality, ongoing education, and daily interaction with leading specialists in cancer care.
The 80,000 square foot Primary Care Center will provide:
- Offices for 60 internists, pediatricians, obstetrician-gynecologists, and family physicians.
- A Diagnostic Imaging Center offering the most advanced technology, including MRI, PET, and CT scanners.
- A diagnostic laboratory, enabling patients to walk directly from the exam room or their physician’s office to the lab.
Be Part of the Vision
Your philanthropic support will play an essential role in realizing this vision of care. The total cost of the Community Cancer Care Center is $160 million. Twelve million of the total must come from community philanthropic support, half of which ($6 million) must be raised before groundbreaking can begin. Once we secure $12 million in philanthropic support from our community, Sutter Health – of which PAMF is an affiliate – will provide the balance of the funding.