Bryan Health announced details for a new $45 million, 140,000 square foot comprehensive community cancer center in South Lincoln to centralize cancer care under one roof. This site will become a future south campus for Bryan.
“People in this region deserve a leading-edge, progressive cancer center that is focused and designed around the patient,” said Russ Gronewold, president and CEO, Bryan Health. “At Bryan, we reflect what the community needs. People have really stepped forward and said, ‘we want this to happen.’ Nothing could be more evident than a generous gift of land to build this facility.”
John Sampson, president of Sampson construction and his daughter, Cori Vokoun, vice president, Sampson Construction donated 28.8 acres of land near 40th and Rokeby Road in south Lincoln for the project. Their wife and mother, April, lost her life after a battle with breast cancer.
“To address the journey of health care, particularly when you have cancer, is a very soul-searching item,” said Sampson. “Right now, families who have been affected by cancer deal with fragmented care, not by the fault of any doctors or medical groups. It’s simply the reality of the situation. Getting this care under one roof is going to be so huge that generations to come will expect it as an everyday thing. It will be so refreshing and uplifting to folks beyond their imagination today.”
In Lancaster, Saline, Gage and Seward counties, nearly 9,000 people receive cancer treatment each year. Almost half of those patients seek care outside Lincoln. A comprehensive community cancer center uses the same treatment protocols as National Cancer Institute (NCI) facilities while allowing patients to receive care close to home.
The state-of-the-art facility will offer advanced technology and treatment with a healing, comfortable environment. Bryan’s approach to cancer treatment will honor the highest-quality, protocol-driven care available using a multi-disciplinary approach.
More details: www.bryanhealth.org/new-cancer-center