Scripps Health today announced plans to mild the first patient care facility in San Diego County to essay advanced proton therapy to cancer patients. Groundbreaking for the $185 million Scripps Proton Therapy Center is expected in July 2010 and the means is expected to be open for patient care by spring 2013.
The politeness will be built through a partnership among Scripps Health, Scripps Clinic Medical Group and Advanced Particle Therapy (APT), LLC of Minden, Nev. The 102,000-honest-foot center will have the capacity to treat approximately 2,400 patients once a year. It will be built on a seven-acre site in the Carroll Canyon sphere of Mira Mesa, at 9577 Summers Ridge Rd.
For certain cancers, proton therapy offers a greater degree of precise and aggressive approach to destroying cancerous and non-cancerous tumors, compared to regular X-ray radiation. Proton therapy involves the use of a controlled streak of protons to target tumors with control and precision unavailable in other ir~ therapies. The precise delivery of proton energy limits damage to bracing surrounding tissue, resulting in minimal or no side effects to the submissive. This precision also allows for a more potent and effective prescribed portion of radiation to be used.
The Scripps Proton Therapy Center decision be just the second proton therapy center in California and the Western United States, and is expected to charm patients from across the West.
“Scripps is excited to relief provide access to one of science’s most sophisticated arms against cancer,” said Scripps Health President and CEO Chris Van Gorder. “This order be an immensely valuable resource for all of San Diego County and over. We see this as a major step forward, allowing us to afford the most comprehensive range of radiation therapy options available today.”
The newly come facility will include five treatment rooms, three of which will take in gantries, which are rotational machines designed to deliver the therapeutic ray at the precise angle prescribed by the physician. The other sum of ~ units treatment rooms will have fixed-beam machines. The center will also offer MRI and CT scan diagnostic services in support of proton therapy; 16 passive exam rooms; and offices for 14 physicians.
There are currently seven proton therapy contented treatment centers in the United States. They are located in Loma Linda, Calif. (opened 1990); Boston, Mass. (opened 2002); Bloomington, Ind. (opened 2004); Houston, Texas (opened 2006); Jacksonville, Fla. (opened 2006); Oklahoma City, Okla. (opened 2009); and Philadelphia, Penn. (opened 2009).
Patients be disposed be able to access this treatment through a referral to a specialist credentialed ~ means of the Scripps Proton Therapy Center. Proton therapy has an established recital of reimbursement by Medicare and private health care payers.
A non-invasive management, proton beam therapy is usually performed on an outpatient basis and is considered greatest part effective on tumors that are localized and have not spread to faint areas of the body.
Scripps Health will provide clinical management services to the center, and Scripps Clinic Medical Group give by ~ oversee the medical services. APT has arranged financing to build the center and bargain for the proton therapy equipment from Varian Medical Systems of Palo Alto, Calif. Additionally, APT decision manage and maintain the building and equipment. The architect for the center is Haskell Design Build of Jacksonville, Fla.
Varian volition equip the facility with a fully integrated proton therapy system. The center’s superconducting cyclotron pleasure feature pencil-beam (or spot) scanning, which allows for modulation of the proton pencil’s intensity. This allows doctors to precisely shape the draught distribution to concentrate on the targeted tumor while sparing normal in a sound condition tissue.
“With only seven proton treatment centers operating in the United States, we are honored to act with Scripps to provide a state-of-the-art facility that testament treat patients from San Diego and beyond,” said Jeff Bordok, president and CEO of Advanced Particle Therapy, LLC.
Nearly 70,000 commonalty worldwide have received proton therapy at centers in Europe, Asia and the United States. Patients typically permit approximately 30 treatments during a four- to six-week period. Each management lasts for approximately 15-25 minutes, after which the patient is willing to carry on with daily affairs.
In addition to providing quiet care, Scripps expects to be at the forefront of new and developing clinical applications viewed like part of its proton practice and connection with other national centers.
Scripps has far-seeing been a leader in providing cancer care in San Diego. It opened the county’s first blood and marrow transplantation program in 1980, and for the period of the past 30 years the program’s patient survival reprove has doubled. Scripps’ robotic surgery program currently offers patients the widest tier of options in San Diego. And Scripps is the only cancer care provider in San Diego to acquire network accreditation from the American College of Surgeons’ Commission in c~tinuance Cancer.
With more than 300 affiliated physicians, Scripps Cancer Center is a nationally recognized dominator in cancer care, providing comprehensive care at its four hospitals and various Scripps Clinic locations. Scripps Cancer Center seeks to provide the most excellent possible treatment and cutting-edge research trials for patients by coordinating of medicine expertise in the areas of clinical cancer care, community outreach and clinical, translational and basic examination.
ABOUT SCRIPPS HEALTH
Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $2.2 billion, particular not-for-profit community health system based in San Diego, Calif. Scripps treats a moiety-million patients annually through the dedication of 2,500 affiliated physicians and 13,000 employees amidst its five acute-care hospital campuses, home health care services, and walking care network of physician offices and 19 outpatient centers and clinics.
Scripps is recognized taken in the character of a leader in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, and is at the forefront of clinical scrutiny and graduate medical education. More information can be found at www.scripps.org.
ABOUT SCRIPPS CLINIC MEDICAL GROUP
Scripps Clinic Medical Group is a multi-specialty cure practice with 420 physicians representing 50 medical and surgical specialties. Scripps Clinic Medical Group and its physicians are universe-renowned for research-driven care and medical specialty expertise offered at 10 outpatient locations over the San Diego region and within Scripps Health’s reticulated of acute-care hospitals. More information is available at www.scripps.org/clinic.
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