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Artist's Conception of new PSCI building, to completed in early 2009

Construction of a four-story, 175,000-square-foot Cancer Center facility on the Hershey Medical Center campus is well underway. The facility will provide a new home for cancer-related clinical and research operations as well as a new main hospital entrance. The state-of-the-art facility will bring leading-edge cancer treatment and ongoing cancer research together in one location to help Penn State Cancer Institute achieve its goal of acquiring the hallmark accreditation for academic cancer centers -- National Cancer Institute designation. Completion of Cancer Center construction is estimated to be early 2009.

What we’re building...
• Outpatient clinics with exam rooms, infusion stations, and private treatment rooms
• A day hospital where patients will receive chemotherapy treatments
• A healing garden to offer a quiet retreat for infusion therapy patients
• A Radiation Oncology suite
• Research labs connected to the main hospital and Penn State College
of Medicine to encourage collaboration between patient treatment and
cancer research

Maintaining our environment...
The construction site may look messy at the moment, but once completed the new Cancer Center building will be surrounded by lush landscaping and trees to create an inviting entry. The architecture of the building itself allows for a great deal of natural light to be seen from the inside to help our patients and visitors feel more at home. In addition, only local products will be used in our construction, plus we're recycling the waste from the construction site.