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We have been working together collaboratively with UNMC and our medical staff. They have
put together a plan that basically would involve a variety of different projects that all together
would have a dramatic impact on our ability to provide cancer care on this campus and
to the community, state and region that we serve.
This includes the development of a 10-story oncology center; we would have a transitional
research building that would be connected, which is the state of the art approach to
finding the best treatments and adapting the research of today for treatments of today.
We are looking at the development of 108 beds that will be focused on cancer care. We are
planning on the development of ambulatory services building that will provide access
for new programs, ambulatory surgery and GI. We can focus all of our energy on one location
so when the patient comes in everything is there and available to them. At the same time,
I want to reinforce again the fact, that having access to the researchers who are working
that closely with the practicing physicians, provides and ensures that they have the most
up to date possible treatments and considerations available to them every day.
It provides even greater opportunities. It will help us secure and go beyond what is
presently our certified cancer center status and reach what’s called comprehensive cancer
care status. It basically ensures that research and the care are being provided collaboratively.
There are limited, less than 40 facilities in the country that have this qualification.
The cancer project is a transformational project for all Nebraskans and Nebraska. It will create
approximately 1200 new jobs and will bring in approximately $100 million a year, in new
revenue to the state of Nebraska. The cancer project will allow us to recruit
the best physicians, physician scientists, researchers and staff to Nebraska. It will
become a designation center for not only Nebraskans but for U.S. and the international arena as
well.
The research brings new ideas and the new ideas, creates new treatments, diagnosis treatments,
evolves education and also, brings it to the patient.
The cancer center product is critically important for UNMC and to patients. It will enable us
to put researchers in a laboratory next door to physicians seeing patients in a clinic.
It will hasten the transfer of discoveries from the laboratory into new therapies for
patients as quickly as possible. The overall cost of the project is about $370
million. This will come from collaboration from the hospital, which contributed about
$120 million to the project, about $200 million will come from private philanthropy and about
$50 million we hope will come from the state to help support this critically important
project for the campus and for the community.
Cancer research is still vitally important to Nebraskans. One out of two Nebraskans will
be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. While there have been significant improvements
in cancer treatments, research will lead to the next generation of therapies which will
be personalized cancer care for each individual patient diagnosed with cancer.