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Expanding the current facility will allow us The planned expansion will double the space for
to establish a new, comprehensive Pediatric ambulatory cancer care and treatment, improve
Oncology Ambulatory Care Center that will special treatment units, make available comfortable
relieve the current overcrowding and make areas for patients and their families, and provide
possible inclusion of all of the state-of-the-art designated spaces for occupational and physical
tools necessary for cutting-edge treatment and therapy. This new expanded and upgraded facility
optimal life-saving and healing results. will in many cases also alleviate the need for patients
to be hospitalized overnight, a major benefit for
them and their families.

The project will include the following:

Ambulatory Treatment Areas Six Medical Examination Rooms Procedures Room
Twenty ambulatory treatment areas Physicians’ examination rooms are needed Medical procedures that
will more than triple the number for examining patients before treatment require sedation will be
of treatment areas available and and for screening and follow-up exams. performed in this room.
provide adequate space to meet These examination rooms will also be used There is a crucial need for
the needs of the growing number for private conversations with patients and one such room with suitable
of pediatric oncology patients who families. This privacy, which we cannot offer equipment and space within
need treatment each day. in the current facility, is of great importance. the department

Isolation Rooms Social Workers’ Room Consultants’ Room
Two positive pressure The Department of Pediatric A range of medical and paramedical
isolation rooms for patients Oncology Ambulatory Care is consultants come to the department to
with compromised immune committed to providing social work with our patients. These include
systems and two negative services to patients as part of dieticians, psychologists, and experts in
pressure isolation rooms that the comprehensive support palliative medicine. We require a suitable
provide isolation for others they receive. Social workers are room in which they can work and interact
from patients who may carry an integral component of our privately with our patients and their
infections. multidisciplinary staff. families.

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