Chelsea Community Hospital breaks ground on 15,000 sq ft cancer center

Work on the Chelsea Community Hospital's new Chelsea Cancer Center is now officially underway. A groundbreaking ceremony for the 15,000 square foot development was held on Jan. 16. The new CCH facility, which is a part of the Saint Joseph Mercy Health System, will allow local patients to receive treatments closer to home. 

 

"Research shows that patients who require oncology care prefer their care be provided as close to home as possible," says John Stout, executive director of Oncology Services for Saint Joseph Mercy Health System. "The Chelsea Cancer Center will give patients and their families access to all of St. Joe's regional cancer services right there in the Chelsea community." 

 

The center will double the CCH's capacity for infusion and chemotherapy treatment, as well as include a linear accelerator and CT simulator. 

 

"This brings the most advanced technologies and cancer services  to the market," Stout says.

 

Though the Cancer Center won't be complete until early 2015, cancer patients are already being seen at CCH's Infusion Center, which opened in 2010. The Chelsea Cancer Center is being funded by a $6 million fundraising campaign expected to create 10 to 15 new jobs.