$31 MILLION IN CANCER-CENTER FUNDS SOUGHT FOR ST. JOSEPH.Byline: Alex Dobuzinskis Staff Writer BURBANK - Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center is a hospital in Burbank, California, USA. The hospital has 455 beds, and is part of Providence Health & Services. It's adress is: 501 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91505. is trying to raise $33.1 million to build what would be the first comprehensive cancer center in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. area, hospital officials said Thursday. About $4 million already has been raised for the four-story, 55,000- square-foot facility, to be built on 5 acres across from the existing hospital. The outpatient center would offer medical and radiation oncology radiation oncology n. The branch of radiology that deals with the use of ionizing radiation to treat cancers. radiation oncology , rehabilitation rehabilitation: see physical therapy. therapy, breast exams, social work and spiritual care. ``If you can get all your services in one place and make it easier for the patient, it's all much better for the patient,'' hospital spokesman Dan Boyle Dan Boyle may refer to:
No date has been set for construction of the center. ``This is going to be a fund-raising event, a capital campaign,'' Boyle said. ``When this is going to be built is dictated by when the money will be raised to build it.'' The new fund-raising push comes as construction continues on a $70 million, seven-story patient-care building expected to be open early next year. A jog in Buena Vista Street caused by construction on that new tower is expected to be straightened in November or December. Doctors already are moving into a medical building operated by Pacific Medical Group across Alameda Alameda (ăləmē`də, –mā`də), city (1990 pop. 76,459), Alameda co., W central Calif., on an island just off the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay; settled 1850, inc. as a city 1884. Avenue from the hospital. The building shares the same 5-acre lot planned for the cancer center. A center for the treatment and prevention of breast cancer has already moved into the new facility, which covers 72,000 square feet and is four stories tall. Alex Dobuzinskis, (818) 546-3304 alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com |
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