The New Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute
Key Stats
- Third largest cancer hospital in the nation
- 21 stories
- 1.1M square feet
- 306 Impatient beds, including 24-bed BMT unit
- 14 Operating Rooms
- 6 Interventional Radiology Suites
- 7 Linear accelerators for radiation therapy
- Dedicated Early-Phase Clinical Trials Unit
Innovative Design That Provides a State-of-the-Art, Healing Environment
- Impatient floors that specialize in specific cancer subtypes facilitate care by subspecialist multidisciplinary teams of physicians, nurses and pharmacists.
- Translational research labs on each floor that bring physicians together with researchers to develop and deliver the most effective targeted treatments for patients.
- A Cancer Clinical Trials Unit offers a comforting patient environment with a staff highly experienced in safely conducting innovative, early-phase trials.
- A State-of-the-Art, GMP Cellular Processing Laboratory for blood and marrow supports the hospital’s 24-bed Blood and Marrow Transplant Unit.
- Precision Cancer Medicine using advanced genomic technologies to identify both the molecular changes causing a patient’s cancer and the right drugs to treat it.
- A Fully Integrated Cancer Emergency Department, opening March 2015, that will treat cancer-related medical emergencies. Emergency medicine physicians and nurses will work with oncologists and oncology nurses to care for patients and ease their transition to further care at The James or at home.
- The Oncologic Surgery Suite has 14 operating rooms supported with the most advanced technology, including minimally invasive robotic surgery, to enable teams of surgeons to perform complex procedures.
- Intra-Operative Radiation Therapy and Intra-Operative MRI technologies that can be used for patients in the operating room for greater safety and efficiency.
- The Radiation Oncology Department that is equipped with seven Varian TruBeam linear accelerators, as well as a brachytherapy unit, bringing the newest technologies for delivering radiation therapy.