Beth Israel Breaks Ground on New Cancer Center

The missing building on the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham campus is starting to get filled in. 

The hospital broke ground on a new cancer treatment center yesterday, which is expected to be completed in 2014. This is phase two of a larger plan to make healthcare in the suburbs of Boston more accessible.

“This will be a very patient-centered facility,” said BID-Needham President and CEO John Fogarty in a press release. “Patients and clinicians have worked side by side with the architects for months to design the ideal patient experience. The result is a plan that consolidates all cancer services on one floor and a new surgical center on the second floor which allows for more advanced surgeries including cancer, colorectal, orthopaedic, urology, otolaryngology and general surgery.”

The press release also indicates that this center will be one of the first in the country, and the first in New England, to offer CyberKnife technology. It is a non-invasive, robotic-controlled system that delivers radiation to targeted part of the body. 

For an idea of what the cancer center will look like, see the video on Beth Israel's website. 

To make way for the new building, an administrative building on the campus was demolished last week. Demolition began and finished on April 1.