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Cancer hospital opens in Texas
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Baylor Cancer Hospital, the first dedicated cancer hospital in North Texas, opened earlier this year.
The 175,000-square-foot facility is on the Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas campus. The hospital provides inpatient cancer care services, a 24-hour oncology evaluation and treatment center, and support services to patients, their families and caregivers.
“We treat more patients than any other hospital in North Texas, seeing nearly 10,000 inpatients and outpatients each year” said John McWhorter, president of Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. “What makes this new facility unique is that it is exclusively a cancer hospital, and the staff is specially trained to manage all aspects of cancer care.”
Baylor Cancer Hospital is the second dedicated cancer treatment facility Baylor has opened. The Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center at Dallas, an outpatient center, opened in March 2011.
“The cancer hospital and cancer center are fully integrated and were built to complement each other,” said Alan Miller, MD, chief of oncology for Baylor Health Care System and medical director of the Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center. “[They] will share many of the same support services so the transition from inpatient services to outpatient services will be seamless.”