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Southcoast Center for Cancer Care Opens in Fall River

Coordinated cancer care and advanced oncology services came one step closer to reality in July with the opening of the Southcoast Hospitals Group Center for Cancer Care in Fall River.

“Southcoast is ushering in a new era of cancer care in our region. Never before have the residents of southeastern Massachusetts and neighboring Rhode Island had access to this level of comprehensive oncology services backed by their own regional health system,” said Keith A. Hovan, President and CEO of Southcoast Hospitals Group.

Located at Charlton Memorial Hospital, the new comprehensive cancer care center provides a full range of oncology services, including imageguided radiation therapy — the very latest technology available in radiation treatment for cancer. The Center for Cancer Care also specializes in the latest chemotherapies, surgery and advanced diagnostic imaging. Support services, educational materials and screenings are offered in collaboration with the American Cancer Society.

Southcoast’s new Center for Cancer Care also offers a unique Patient Navigator service. A Patient Navigator serves as a “go-to” person who guides patients through their care by coordinating appointments, answering questions and pointing them in the right direction.

The Center for Cancer Care is located in a renovated area of Charlton and offers patients and their families a comforting, spalike environment with a host of amenities, such as valet parking, personal TVs in the chemotherapy treatment area, Internet access, refreshments and a resource library.

“Our new services, staff and locations are designed with one goal in mind — to bring our patients and their families the very best cancer treatment possible right here in their own community,” said Therese M. Mulvey, MD, the physician leader for the Southcoast Centers for Cancer Care. “We hope to empower patients to receive high-quality care in their own communities, with shared decision making among specialists and patients.”