Carroll Hospital Center has taken over the operations of a neighboring cancer care unit and plans to build a new cancer hospital in two years.
The Westminster hospital has renamed the Carroll Cancer Center the Carroll Regional Cancer Center, which it took over from national health care network US Oncology. It has added hematologist/oncologist Dr. Johanna DiMento to the cancer center's 75-person staff, says Carroll Cancer Center Chief Operating Officer Leslie Simmons.
Health care executives wanted to provided care under one roof and offer a broader range of services, Simmons says.
Hospital executives are getting ready to launch a fundraising campaign so it can begin construction on an entirely new cancer care building in 2013. Simmons says she did not yet have a cost estimate for the project.
The hospital's goal is to construct a building on its campus.
"The current center is at capacity," Simmons says. "There's interest in expanding it and organizing care."
Writer: Julekha Dash
Source: Leslie Simmons, Carroll Hospital Center