MultiCare opens new regional cancer center

Mar 01 2010

MultiCare Health System opened Tacoma's first comprehensive Cancer Care Center today in the new Milgard Pavilion at MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital.

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The Center offers:

-- Capacity for 40 semi-private and private infusion chairs set up in pods of six that will accommodate individual preferences for social interaction or privacy. 33 chairs for chemotherapy - nearly double the current 18 chairs at Tacoma General. Each chair has a personal entertainment system with television, radio and Internet access. And many of the treatment rooms have sweeping views of the Tacoma skyline and Mount Rainier;

-- An expanded radiation oncology center equipped with an image-guided linear accelerator and other state-of-the-art technologies including a CyberKnife robotic linear accelerator to be installed by summer 2010. The ceiling above the linear accelerator is decorated with glass art providing a soothing experience during treatments;