Karmanos Cancer Center expands into Monroe, Toledo

Detroit-based Karmanos Cancer Center is spreading its wings into the Monroe and Toledo markets with its new Monroe Cancer Center.

Karmanos, which is based next to the Detroit Medical Center campus in Midtown, is partnering with Mercy Memorial Hospital of Monroe and ProMedica Health System of Toledo to make this happen.

"The Monroe area doesn't have any sort of comprehensive cancer facility at all," says Mary Short, vice president of the Karmanos Cancer Center. "People who live there have to travel quite a ways for care."

The partnership broke ground this week on the new cancer center at 800 Stewart Road, near the campus of Mercy Memorial Hospital. They plan to create a world-renowned cancer treatment facility in Monroe, the first integrated cancer center in the area offering medical and radiation oncology services under one roof.

The $5 million project will allow for the delivery of individualized cancer therapy, the latest protocols for medical oncology, and advanced technology for radiation oncology. The facility will include physician offices and offer laboratory and other oncology-related services.

Karmanos employs about 1,000 people, mostly in Detroit's greater downtown area. It has 23 open positions for everything from nurses to laboratory technicians.

"We're always looking for people," Short says.

Source: Mary Short, vice president of the Karmanos Cancer Center
Writer: Jon Zemke

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