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Northside Hospital Joins National Cancer Institute Program to

Enhance Cancer Research and Care at Community Hospitals

 

Northside Hospital is among 14 new sites chosen by the National Cancer Institute, part of the

National Institutes of Health, to join a national network of community cancer centers offering expanded research opportunities and state-of-the-art cancer care. Northside was the only new hospital added in the Southeastern United States.

 

“This latest recognition of Northside Hospital’s Cancer Care Program is a true testament to the reputation and strengths of our Program in the Southeast, and in the United States,” said Bob Quattrocchi, President and CEO of Northside Hospital. “For more than a decade, Northside’s Cancer Care Program has been leading the way in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of women’s oncology, leukemia and other blood diseases, prostate cancer and others. We are delighted to become part of this network and are fully committed to implementing all the program components set-forth by the NCI for participating Centers.”

 

Distinguishing features of Northside’s Cancer Care Program include:

 

 

The NCI Community Cancer Centers Program (NCCCP) is using $40 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to expand its number of community hospital-based sites from 16 to 30.

 

NCCCP is designed to create new research opportunities across the cancer continuum from screening and treatment to follow-up care, with an emphasis on minority and underserved populations. Expanding the NCCCP network will provide access to more patients in community cancer centers to support these research efforts.

 

 In addition, the program is studying ways for patients to have access to the latest, evidence-based care close to where they live. For a variety of reasons, many cancer patients cannot commute to major academic medical centers for treatment. In fact, 85 percent of patients are diagnosed, and receive at least their first course of treatment, at a community hospital.

 

NCCCP centers are addressing ways to reduce healthcare disparities, improve access to clinical trials, improve overall quality of care, promote an infrastructure to collect high-quality biospecimens such as blood and tissue samples for research, and link with national computer networks that support research. The centers also work to improve survivorship, palliative care services, and patient advocacy.

 

The complete list of new sites:

 

 

For a complete list of all sites in the network, visit ncccp.cancer.gov.

Click here for more information on Northside's Cancer Care Program.