Mercy picks 'all local' contractors for new cancer center

Mercy Medical Center has selected “all local” contractors in the design and development of its new Destination Cancer Center.  The Destination Cancer Center will offer fully integrated and patient-centered cancer treatment in a state-of-the-art, 45,000-square-foot facility on the Mercy campus and within the city's proposed Medical District.

In an effort to provide the highest quality, innovative facility, Mercy has chosen general contractors Rinderknecht Associates, Inc. and Ryan Companies to work together, along with architectural partner OPN Architects, on the $10.7 million project.  Newly-formed patient focus groups will provide valuable input on design for a truly patient-centered environment.

Scheduled to open in December 2011, the Destination Cancer Center will unite many of the area's finest cancer specialists – including physicians from Oncology Associates and Radiation Oncology of Cedar Rapids and others – within a single center.

The new facility will conveniently connect to Mercy's well-known and respected Hall Radiation Center at the corner of 10

^th

Street and Fifth Avenue SE. It will offer patients access to leading-edge technologies and treatments, and includes Centers of Excellence for treating today's most prevalent cancers: breast, lung, colorectal, prostate, brain, kidney/bladder, gynecologic, hematologic (blood) and melanoma (skin).

Mercy expects to begin site work on the Destination Cancer Center this fall.

For more information on the Destination Cancer Center visit

www.mercycare.org