Construction underway on Sacred Heart Hospital Cancer Center

[DeFuniak Herald / Beach Breeze]

[FONT=&quot]By DOTTY NIST[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot] With the vision of becoming the region's premier cancer center, Sacred Heart Hospital is constructing a new facility in south Walton County.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] The new Cancer Center center is part of a two-story building now underway on the campus of Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast. Ground breaking for the hospital expansion took place on April 26.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] "The facility will combine excellent treatment technology, great doctors and staff, a healing environment, and individualized patient care supported by the latest knowledge and research," said Terri Smith, vice president of Sacred Heart Cancer Services.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] The new building will more than double Sacred Heart on the Emerald Coast's office space. The Cancer Center, located on the first floor, will provide outpatient treatment services, including chemotherapy infusion and a chemotherapy pharmacy, and cancer specialist offices. The building's second floor will house the offices of three obstetrician/gynecologist physicians.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] "This new center will enable us to improve the comfort, privacy, convenience and safety of our patients," said Roger Hall, president of Sacred Heart Hospital of the Emerald Coast. The new center is expected to open in spring 2012.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] Along with Miramar Beach, other Sacred Heart Cancer Center locations include Pensacola, Milton, and Opp, Ala.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] Sacred Heart Cancer Center is affiliated with MD Anderson Physicians Network, the nation's leader in cancer care. The affiliation provides for the sharing of the latest care guidelines and initiatives developed by specialists at the University of Texas MD Anderson Center. It also enables communication between physicians and MD Anderson specialists on individual cases and on research through videoconferences.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] Dr. Mose Hayes III, a medical oncologist and hematologist, is scheduled to begin seeing patients with the Sacred Heart Medical Oncology Group in August. He will join medical oncologist/hematologist Dr. Thomas R. Johnson, who has been practicing with Sacred Heart in Miramar Beach since 2008.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] Sacred Heart of the Emerald Coast opened 8 1/2 years ago, with the community providing $20 million in funding, and then $10 million for expansions that included a diagnostic center and a heart and vascular center.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] The 58-bed not-for-profit hospital strives to improve the health of the community as a whole and also emphasizes charity health care.[/FONT]

 

[chanster]

you can have sacred heart. they misdiagnosed me last year and it almost cost me my life. All i can say if you have something serious you better get to northside,st joseph's or emory in atlanta.

 

[Andy A]

you can have sacred heart. they misdiagnosed me last year and it almost cost me my life. All i can say if you have something serious you better get to northside,st joseph's or emory in atlanta.

Blame your physician, not Sacred Heart. We have had nothing but tremendous success with both our physicians, clinicians, radiologists and lab technicians at Sacred Heart. My wife would not be alive today if it were not for the wonderful cancer care she has received both here and at M.D. Anderson. Stage 4 renal cell cancer patients usually do not survive 4 years and show stability unless they have some good medical treatment.
The new Cancer center is not only welcome but will be received by many with open arms. I'm sorry about your medical problem but they can occur anywhere. You can keep Atlanta. I'll take M.D. Anderson and Sacred Heart!