New Miami Cancer Institute Slated for 2016

A new cancer institute planned for Miami (FL, USA) will consolidate under one roof outpatient clinical services, a dedicated cancer research facility, and signature technology platforms, including the first proton therapy center in South Florida.

The planned Miami Cancer Institute will be located at Baptist Health South Florida (Miami, FL, USA), and will include a 23,000 m² clinical cancer center, a 11,150 m² research facility, a brand-new inpatient floor designed especially for cancer patients, and medical offices for cancer specialists. There also will be two parking garages with 1,400 spaces for the convenience of patients and their families. The four-story facility was designed by ZGF Architects (Portland, OR, USA), which also designed the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

The Miami Cancer Institute plans to offer comprehensive clinical services, such as bone marrow transplant, diagnostic imaging, infusion chemotherapy and radiation therapies, tomotherapy, gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery, and proton therapy, an advanced treatment that beams radiation directly to the tumor to destroy cancer cells while avoiding healthy tissues. The therapy will also be available to patients throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. The Institute will also promote a robotic surgery program, with special emphasis on gynecology-oncology and thoracic surgery.

“The Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health South Florida will be recognized as a world-class destination for providing evidence-based, individualized care for our patients,” said Brian E. Keeley, president and CEO of Baptist Health South Florida. “It will be a state-of-the-art facility that will be unmatched in our region in terms of clinical excellence and advanced cancer care, and we are recruiting nationally renowned experts to lead the Institute.”

“We are combining innovative, precision cancer care and the latest in clinical research with Baptist Health’s well-known high level of patient care – all in one place,” said cancer specialist Leonard Kalman, MD. “This is the most exciting project related to cancer care that I have been involved with in my more than 30 years of practicing oncology in Miami.”

Construction of the Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health South Florida is scheduled to start in July 2014.

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