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The new center brings together in one place ESJH's Breast Care Center, cancer psychosocial services, medical and surgical oncology, a cancer laboratory, a research department, a new cancer pharmacy and the Infusion Center. Perhaps more important, it will provide a new standard for integrated care offered by an eminently qualifi ed team of physicians and staff, led by Medical Director Dr. Richard Hesky and Executive Director Michele Carey.
"What distinguishes the program are not just the services we provide but how we have put them together so that our cancer professionals - from oncologists to lab technicians to psychotherapists to infusion specialists to radiologists - interact with one another to provide fully coordinated care to each patient," says Carey.
One key to the coordinated care is the "care conference" in which physicians and specialist teams outline treatment protocols for patients so that care is appropriate and complete - and so that treatment and diagnostic options are not duplicated.
Referring physicians can also be assured of the quality of care each patient will receive because of the caliber of physicians and staff assembled for the program. The Breast Care Center, for example, includes medical director Dr. Denise Norton, a breast surgeon with more than 20 years experience in her specialty, and Dr. Jerome Schroeder, one of the few fellowship-trained breast care radiologists in the state.
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