CMH/OHSU Knight
Cancer Center
It’s a difference you will feel the moment you enter. You’ll immediately
sense that this place is for you and your family.
This place is about peace of mind.
C A N C E R
Cancer can make normal life impossible. Treatment schedules, physical changesloss of hair, the nauseous side effects of treatmentare stressful for any patient fighting
this disease through surgery, chemotherapy or radiation treatment.
For some, the cure can seem worse than the illness.
But, what if when hearing cancer the first thing that came to mind was...
...HOPE?
What came to mind?
Uncertainty? Vulnerability? Anguish? Loss? Struggle?
F E A R?
Chris Laman, PharmD, BCPS
Director of Pharmacy and Cancer Center Services
CMH/OHSU Knight
Cancer Center
Columbia Memorial Hospital (CMH) embraces its responsibility to offer the best healthcare possible.
This commitment stems from a legacy of caring in this community. Now, CMH is focusing on one of the most urgent healthcare needs in the regionexpanding local cancer treatment services.
Local Care
Our patients now must travel out of the area, to Longview or Portland, to receive radiation therapy.
This poses a tremendous hardship on them and their loved ones during an extremely challenging time.
Partnership
Already in an affiliation with Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU) to provide chemotherapy, Columbia Memorial Hospital is now proud to announce an expanded partnership to provide radiation therapy.
OUR PROMISE TO THE FUTURE
The American Cancer Society estimated that in 2014, 22,530 new cancer cases were diagnosed in Oregon and 38,230 in Washington. There is a growing trend that indicates that the number of cancer cases in the CMH service area will be even greater than the State average. As life expectancy increases and an older population reaches the age where cancer is most likely to develop, there will be an increase in its occurrence. The CMH service area has an aging population and attracts a large number of retirees.
Approximately 18.6% of the population of Clatsop County is over the age of 65.
It is estimated that during the first year of operation, the CMH/OHSU Knight Cancer Collaborative will provide radiation treatments for at least 11 patients per day, which will equal 2,800 annual treatments;
and chemotherapy treatments for 13 per day, equaling 3,300 per year. These numbers are expected to grow during every subsequent year and to reach 3,600 and 4,600 annually by 2019.
Sacred Promise of Hope
Honoring its Lutheran heritage, Columbia Memorial Hospital has been serving generations of patients and families through the promise of
healing for over 100 years. The courage and commitment to providing physical, mental and spiritual healing is a
sacred promise that is timeless.
Clearly, much has changed since that first patient walked through the doors over a century ago. But the promise of hope has not changed. It remains a guiding light to mark a path of continual improvement and constant awareness of the sanctity of caring for human life.
Sacred Inspiration
Over a hundred years of inspired healthcare has brought to life our vision of embracing the whole person. The next 100 years will carry that sacred inspiration forward. Why is this so important?
Imagine the process and the feelings a typical cancer patient might experience:
It was getting annoying. The cough wouldn’t go away even after my primary physician ran those tests and then prescribed antibiotics. So, a month later I saw a pulmonologist who took some X-rays but they didn’t really help. They were “inconclusive.” Now I’m really anxious. I am afraid and wondering if I have cancer.
But there’s nothing I can do until the CT scan.
Another physician, another office building, more forms, more waiting. My anxiety builds until I can’t sleep and am too nervous to eat. The CT scan finally shows something but still no definitive answers. So, it’s on to surgery for a biopsy. The waiting and not knowing is excruciating. A few weeks later the results finally come in and I hear the words I’ve been dreading…
”It’s cancer.” Then the treatment starts and it’s an endless kaleidoscope of waiting, feeling sick, trying to be strong for my family. It’s a lonely journey from one place to the next, one treatment to another and hope is hard to hang on to.
This could be anyone’s story. Any friend, neighbor or family member facing a diagnosis of cancer.
This typical experience inspires us to design a cancer treatment center that is unprecedented in its motivation to wrap its arms around a patient and say, “This is for you. This is where you will find care for your body and your spirit. This is where, together, we will replace fear with hope.”
CMH/OHSU Knight Cancer Center
Sacred Vision
At Columbia Memorial Hospital, we know people change and medicine continually advances to meet their needs. That’s why we never stop growing. We never stop encouraging innovation. We never stop asking “why not?” And we never stop striving to be better. So, while there is much to be proud of, there is still much to do. We believe the next most important step is an innovative cancer treatment center that provides state-of-the-art care for cancer patients.
We believe that treatment must embrace the whole personnot just the body. The time has come to extend that belief to some of our most vulnerable patientsthose facing cancer. Our legacy requires it.
Our compassion demands it.
To that end, Columbia Memorial Hospital, and Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU) are expanding their successful partnership to include providing advanced cancer care on the Pacific Coast. This partnership makes possible the most up-to-date medical and radiation treatments available. Under the leadership of Dr. Jennifer Lycette, OHSU and Columbia Memorial Hospital are focusing on placing patients and medical experts at the heart of the care provided. Thus the Center is being designed with a specific goal: highly advanced treatment in an environment that embraces the patient and family members. The new 18,000 square foot Center will bring together medical and
Dr. Jennifer Lycette
CMH/OHSU Knight Cancer Center
radiation oncology which features stereotactic radiosurgerythe most advanced treatments currently available. Through the addition of radiation therapy, physicians will be able to determine the exact position of a tumor with incredible precisionat the moment of treatment. This will also allow the physician to treat very small lesions and tumors while avoiding or minimizing any damage to healthy tissue. For patients, this means reduced treatment times and side effects.
Further, all critical supportive services will be available to patients including an onsite pharmacy, a laboratory, massage therapy, nutritional and dietary services and educational resources second to none, to name a few.
It’s a difference you will feel the moment you enter.
You’ll immediately sense that this place is for you and your family. This place is about peace of mind. This is a place where every detail has been carefully considered to ensure comfort, compassion and exceptional care in an atmosphere that clearly states you are not alone.
Close your eyes and walk with us through our vision of what is possible...
You hear the words, “It’s cancer.” But, then you hear
“We have an appointment set up for you today.”
No waiting. No weeks of endless anxiety. Instead, you find immediate attention. Immediate results. You meet your liaisonthe friend who will navigate the treatment and healing process for you. Your lifeline who works tirelessly to make sure you have everything you need.
You begin treatment. The schedule is based on your life and commitments so you can take care of the things most important to you in the way you need to.
You’re sitting in a recliner overlooking the beautiful Pacific Ocean as you receive chemotherapy. A kind face and a welcoming hand lets you know we are in this together.
Your navigator takes you into the onsite shop where you find wigs, scarves or anything else you might need to provide that center of normalcy that refuses to let you be a numbered patient but recognizes you as a unique, one-of-a kind person with hopes and dreams and a life to live and enjoy.
At the end of the day, you can go homeyour private sanctuarybecause you haven’t had to travel long distances feeling tired and sick and alone.
The free-standing center will not be a sterile
environment where your body is treated as somehow separate from your mind and spirit.
Your team will include radiologists, pathologists, surgical, radiation, and medical oncologists working side-by-side with counselors, nurses, navigators, nutritionists, massage therapists, and countless others dedicated to YOU. All in a setting as superb as your caregivers.
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CMH/OHSU KNIGHT CANCER CENTER
Sacred Partnership
Without question the Center will become one of our region’s most treasured assets. To achieve that level of quality and care innovation requires partnership.
Changing times and changing challenges mean that we can achieve this vision, but only through a connection of hearts and minds intent on a shared purpose.
Shrinking reimbursements, increasing technology and labor costs (along with our commitment to provide care to all those in need regardless of ability to pay) have created unprecedented financial pressure.
This difficult environment creates a critical role for philanthropy to provide the extra funding needed to assure excellence and innovation are possible.
Indeed, our greatest innovations in care have triumphed because of donors who share our sacred promise and reach beyond the immediate to insure our mission advances to meet the needs of our friends and neighbors who depend on us for care.
We invite you to banish fear and nurture hope through philanthropy. We invite you, our friend, to make a commitment to a powerful mission and an even more powerful calling. We invite you to consider a gift to help transform cancer care.
Sacred Giving
Gifts from the heart can take many forms.
Your contribution can be immediate or over a five year period. Many donors utilize appreciated stock or IRAs as well as other assets to fulfill their philanthropic aspirations. However, some donors may choose to make a planned or estate gift and we are happy to discuss this with you.
Your gift will help provide a state-of-the-art equipment and a physical home for oncology patients that honors their entire person. And it will house equipment, physicians, nurses, clinicians and staff that exemplify what is possible in medicine today to make sure that no one faces a lonely road or a lonely heart on the journey to health.
Gifting
For more information about CMH/OHSU Knight Cancer Center and making a giftplease contact the Columbia Memorial Hospital Foundation at info@columbiamemorial.org or 503.325.3208.
Sacred Work
“It is through our partners that we are able to innovate to meet the needs of our community. We are honored every day by the sacred trust placed in us and we are
inspired every day to do all that we can to live up to that trust by providing the best care medicine has to offer. Thank you for considering
joining us through philanthropy in our continuing pursuit of excellence.”
Erik Thorsen, President and CEO
2111 Exchange Street, Astoria, Oregon 97103 Foundationinfo@columbiamemorial.org www.cmh-foundation.org
503.325.3208
