Ground breaking for “less clinical and more comforting” facility set for October
cCARE is joining forces with Saint Agnes in Fresno to provide what is expected to be the largest private cancer center in the Central Valley. The project will expand and renovate an existing 31,000-square-foot center into a new 65,000-square-foot facility, and is expected to be finished in a year to 15 months.
“Our goal with the new facility is to create an atmosphere that’s less clinical and more comforting,” said cCARE chief operations officer Irene Lustria in a recent Fresno Bee article. “Plans for the clinic focus on providing a peaceful and soothing ambiance with natural lighting and distinct decor.”
Among other features, the new center will include a laboratory, renovated infusion areas, physician dispensing service for oral cancer medications, expanded radiation oncology suites and two positron emission tomography machines – advanced imaging equipment that determines cancer location and stage.