Scott & White opens newest section of cancer treatment center
- The Glenda Tanner Vasicek Treatment Center completes first phase-

TEMPLE, Texas – Scott & White Healthcare has opened the newest portion of the Glenda Tanner Vasicek Cancer Treatment Center. It is a 45,000 square foot facility that brings all of the cancer services offered into one location, convenient for patients and their families.

“A facility like this new cancer treatment center is a requirement to be a leader in cancer care,” said Dr. Arthur Frankel, a cancer researcher and director of the Cancer Center, the division of Hematology/Oncology, and the Cancer Research Institute at Scott & White. “We have a great location in the center of Texas that is convenient to patients from a wide area, and in a user-friendly town – Temple. Here patients and their families have a one-stop shop convenience to access diagnosis and treatment, backed by research and education, and we do this all as a team. And the patient is at the center of everything we do.”

Dr. Frankel is also a professor at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine.

The Glenda Tanner Vasicek Cancer Treatment Center offers patients planned and coordinated care in one location. A key aspect of this second stage in a two-phase remodel effort is bringing research, surgical and gynecological oncology together in the same location with hematology, medical oncology and infusion. Services formerly housed in other areas of the clinic have been moved into remodeled space, making a new home for the Pediatric oncology clinic, cancer support and tumor registry. Future integration plans include radiation oncology consulting, neurology consulting and the high-risk breast clinic.

The entryway lobby of the main clinic building has also had a major renovation.

Last year the first stage work of Phase I was completed, which featured the new and larger infusion treatment area with natural light, the distinctive drop-off entry at the north end of the clinic, new exam rooms and family visitation room.

The center’s $12.5 million construction has been funded entirely with donated money.

This state-of-the-art center is named for Glenda Tanner Vasicek, a longtime Scott & White employee who lost her battle with cancer in 2007. Future phases of the center include construction of a new building to bring more research activity under the complex’s roof.

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Scott Clark

Media and Public Relations

254-724-9724 or 254-724-3047

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May 28, 2009