Download mission possible: introducing the yawkey center for cancer care

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MISSION POSSIBLE:
INTRODUCING THE YAWKEY CENTER FOR CANCER CARE
REALIZING OUR VISION
OF PERSONALIZED CANCER CARE
Sidney Farber, MD, had a vision in 1947 of what ideal cancer care could and should
be. He knew the kind of commitment it would take to reach it. It meant giving care
that would be focused on both patients and their families. It required finding treatments guided by laboratory research, enhanced by sophisticated technologies, and,
always, provided with equal concern for emotional well-being.
At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, we are reaffirming this commitment with our
Yawkey Center for Cancer Care. With this state-of-the-art clinical care and clinical
research facility, we will enter a new era of personalized cancer medicine—one that
fulfills and surpasses Farber’s hopes. The treatment course for each Dana-​Farber
patient will span the bridges between medicine and science, human insight, technology, and compassion.
Institute founder Sidney Farber, MD, dreamed of the kind of compassionate, personalized care
for patients that the Yawkey Center will make possible.
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Dana-Farber nurses (left to right) Susan Torres-Glasper, RN, BSN; Jennifer Lowell, RN, BSN, OCN; and
Laurie Appleby, NP, RNC, were part of the first oncology nursing unit in New England to receive Magnet
designation—the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s “gold standard” award for nursing excellence.
A New Model for Cancer Care
© 2008 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. All rights reserved.
Photography: Len Rubenstein, Joshi Radin (page 4)
We invite you to build the future with us in the Yawkey Center for Cancer Care, and help us
realize our vision for a paradigm of care that further unites our patients, care teams, and scientists.
Together we will create a clinical environment of healing calm fortified by sophisticated technology. We will ensure the melding of clinic and laboratory that produces novel cancer therapies and
will offer patients more opportunities to participate in the most advanced treatment trials. And
we will see to it that the Yawkey Center maintains the strong spirit of teamwork that sets DanaFarber apart: warmth, compassion, and the extraordinary innovations that spark when minds
meet and new pathways of treatment open.
A bold undertaking such as this requires a tremendous amount of support, and Mission Possible:
The Dana-Farber Campaign to Conquer Cancer will help make this vision a reality. A major
funding priority of this landmark, $1 billion campaign, we intend to raise at least $150 million to
construct the Yawkey Center for Cancer Care. Please read on to learn more about this new clinical care and clinical research facility and how you can help make our lifesaving mission possible.
Committed to the whole person:
Our total patient care approach
From our founding, we have always treated a patient’s medical, emotional, financial, and spiritual
needs. We were among the first to create care teams, including oncologists, surgeons, nutritionists, and other caregivers in each patient’s care. Many clinical “firsts”—chemotherapy treatments,
remissions in childhood leukemia, and most recently, targeted therapies for many forms of cancer—originated in partnerships among Dana-Farber clinicians, researchers, and patients. And
now, with the Yawkey Center, we will immeasurably strengthen the links between the laboratory
and the clinic. The building’s design, with bridges to laboratories at levels 6–10 placing researchers and physicians in much greater proximity, will inspire even deeper levels of collaboration.
Investigators will have offices just down the hall from clinicians, with informatics experts, again,
only a few doors away.
The advances in clinical care made possible by the Yawkey Center will have a positive effect on all Dana-Farber
patients, such as Jordan Babbit (left), a Jimmy Fund Clinic patient, with music therapist Brian Jantz, MT-BC.
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Accelerating
drug discovery
Many of the most innovative and complex
clinical trials requiring special monitoring and
frequent evaluation will now take place inside
the Yawkey Center, where one entire floor
will be dedicated to our Center for Clinical
Research (CCR). The CCR is committed to
the newest and most sophisticated clinical
trials—those that test scientific hypotheses
for the first time in patients. This well-lit,
spacious facility will be fully integrated into
the Yawkey Center and staffed specifically for
clinical trials work.
In order to deliver treatments yielded from
these trials, investigators must be able to
quickly determine if and how new drugs are
hitting their targets. The Early Drug Development Center (EDDC), which will also be
located in the Yawkey Center, complements
the CCR’s efforts by focusing on phase I
trials which evaluate the safety and efficacy
of each drug before it reaches the patient.
The expanded CCR and EDDC will bring
us steps closer to developing “smart” clinical
trials based on the genetics of a patient’s tumor
and will ensure that the latest experimental
treatments are rapidly and readily available to
our patients.
A SECOND HOME
Anne Hristov (above, left, with Linda Bova, of DFCI’s
Facilities Management and Real Estate) knows first
hand the Dana-Farber difference. “When you walk
in, Dana-Farber doesn’t feel overwhelming, it has an
almost homey feel—it’s hard to explain, but DanaFarber has become like a second home to me. I worry
less about my cancer when I am here.”
Anne was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous
leukemia in 2003 and found a nationally recognized
expert in Robert Soiffer, MD. “My blood pressure
goes down, not up, with Dr. Soiffer. I feel like a VIP.”
Anne joined Dana-Farber’s volunteer Patient and
Family Advisory Council and worked with Zimmer
Gunsul Frasca, the architects who designed the
Yawkey Center, to add patient and family perspectives, such as a focus on access for the disabled,
extra space in phlebotomy and infusion rooms.
It was advice she was glad to give. “I have a chronic
leukemia, so I will be a part of this new building.
And volunteering at Dana-Farber can be a huge part
of the experience here. You get such great care at
such a difficult time in your life, you end up thinking
‘What else can I do to give back?’”
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IN THE BALANCE
The Yawkey Center for Cancer Care has been
designed to complement Dana-Farber’s balanced,
50-50 emphasis on research and care, so that
patients receive only the most optimal care for
their cancer. Dana-Farber’s commitment to an
equally balanced portfolio of research and care is
unique among cancer centers and attracts physicians and scientists who seek opportunities for
close collaboration. This is what differentiates
Dana-Farber from all other cancer centers and
creates a treatment environment like no other.
The Yawkey Center will help us to integrate our
research and treatment teams in new ways. Novel
therapies will emerge from our strong emphasis
The Yawkey Center will strengthen the ties between research
and clinical care, benefiting Dana-Farber’s researchers and
physicians, such as Leena Gandhi, MD, PhD (left), and Kwok-Kin
Wong, MD, PhD.
on clinical research in the Yawkey Center, as
the expanded facilities and special design of the
building allow our treatment teams to interact
much more frequently and easily with laboratory
researchers. Our scientists will in turn use powerful new technology platforms, such as genomics,
proteomics, chemical biology, computational
biology, informatics, and imaging to unravel the
complexities of cancer, and help create the treatments we will rely on tomorrow.
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New Choices for Patients
The Yawkey Center will offer Dana-Farber’s patients and families the highest level of technology and customized
services available. Patients will be able to access Internet-based tools to complete registration and phlebotomy
scheduling from home. Alternatively, they will be able to register privately at a patient kiosk in the lobby. More
preregistrations and prescheduled phlebotomy appointments mean that waiting times will be minimized.
After visits, physicians will send prescriptions electronically to our new, centralized pharmacy on the second
floor for immediate pickup. This in-house facility will be a key patient benefit, providing specially trained staff
who will mix complex cancer medications and respond to patient questions—services not always available at
retail pharmacies. Once home, patients can review lab results using password-protected Internet access. The
building’s new technologies will offer speed, privacy, and independence to patients.
Phlebotomist and Clinical Assistant Jean Epps (right) meets with Amy Grabel, a
brain tumor patient. During each visit, Grabel requests to be seen by Epps, an
example of the customized care that will be enhanced by the Yawkey Center.
Green Building at a Glance
A “green” building is one that is designed, built,
and operated in an environmentally and socially
responsible way. Our architects have incorporated
these principles into the Yawkey Center’s design,
ensuring that Dana-Farber can put patients first
while also being a good environmental citizen.
Here are some of the ways the Yawkey Center
will be green:
Silver LEED Certification
We are pursuing a prestigious Silver Rating under
the United States Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED® )
rating system.
Green Roofs
There will be eight green roof decks, containing a
variety of native plants, which will help decrease
building cooling costs, provide an urban habitat for
birds and butterflies, and improve air quality.
Energy Efficiency
The waiting areas, consultation rooms, and westfacing patient spaces will contain automated
shades to maximize natural light, thus increasing
efficiency in lighting, heating, and cooling.
Selection of Materials
Recycled materials will be used wherever possible,
including steel, ceiling tiles, and carpets.
Indoor Environmental Quality
The clinical areas will have 100 percent fresh, outdoor air, which will reduce airborne contaminants.
By going “green” the Yawkey
Center will enhance patients’ and
staff well-being, as well as help
preserve the environment.
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A CLOSER LOOK
The Yawkey Center for Cancer Care, located at the corner of Brookline Avenue and Jimmy Fund Way, will serve
as the welcoming new entrance to the Dana-Farber campus in Boston’s Longwood Medical Area.
When completed in 2011, the Yawkey Center—named to honor the late Tom and Jean Yawkey thanks to their
foundation’s leadership support—will rise 14 stories above Brookline Avenue, adding 275,000 square feet of
clinical space to our campus, as well as seven underground levels for patient parking.
In addition to 100 exam rooms, 150 infusion spaces, and 15 patient and family consultation rooms, the Yawkey
Center will streamline patient services and provide flexible space that can easily be adapted to next-generation
technologies, as they emerge.
The building also will connect Dana-Farber to its other campus buildings and to its clinical partners in the
Longwood Medical Area, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston, providing patients
with more seamless care coordination.
Dana-Farber patients and families can name a gene on the Gene Display in the Yawkey Center. This dynamic
and visual display, representing the real genetic information researchers use to make groundbreaking discoveries
in cancer treatment, contains thousands of 4-inch square “genes” that can be permanently inscribed with inspirational messages of hope for all the world to see.
In honor of Paul
who is fighting his
cancer with courage.
Jane and Kevin Smith
and the Smith Family
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THE YAWKEY CENTER FOR CANCER CARE:
THE PATIENT EXPERIENCE
The Yawkey Center has been designed to enhance the Dana-Farber experience for our patients and
their families. It begins at home, as individuals complete registration online, schedule a phlebotomy
appointment, download directions and other pertinent information, as well as explore programs
and access literature about the Institute’s research and care initiatives.
ENTRANCE AND PARKING
Patients can choose to be dropped off on Jimmy Fund Way,
self-park, or valet park. Staff will greet patients and their
families and direct them to elevators, registration, patient
services, and clinics.
ATRIUM LOBBY
As the new front entrance to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the
airy atrium lobby will welcome thousands of patients, families,
staff, and visitors. The lobby will provide access to many of
Dana-Farber’s patient services and resources on the first floor.
RUTH AND CARL J. SHAPIRO CENTER for
Patients and Families in support of Dana-Farber/
Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center
This space on the lobby level will provide patients and families with one point of entry into the many outpatient support
services, educational resources, and complementary therapies
available. Concierge and interpreter services will be offered.
PHLEBOTOMY CENTER
Nearly every adult patient will go to the Phlebotomy Center
on level 2 for blood work each visit. Newly designed systems will decrease the amount of time needed and results
will be forwarded directly to the doctor, ready for the
patient’s appointment.
PHARMACY
Physicians will send prescriptions electronically to the pharmacy
on level 2, and patients can pick up prescriptions immediately
following appointments. Private consultation areas will allow
patients to discuss their prescriptions directly with pharmacists.
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CONFERENCE CENTER
This spacious, state-of-the-art audio/visual facility on level 3
will offer convenient and attractive meeting space for faculty,
staff, and visitors.
HEALING GARDEN
Patients, families, and staff can step into a peaceful oasis
year-round in this beautifully landscaped, fully-enclosed
garden on level 3. A separate conservatory overlooking the
healing garden will offer a similar experience for immunocompromised patients.
DINING PAVILION
With seating for 250 people, the large, natural light-filled
cafe­teria on level 3 will provide a comfortable place for
faculty, staff, patients, family members, and visitors to dine.
CENTER FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH (CCR)
The entire sixth floor will be dedicated to complex clinical trials
requiring special monitoring and frequent evaluation. The
center is designed to integrate scientific research and clinical
care and bring patient outcomes of cutting-edge treatments
back to the lab so new therapies can be developed.
CLINICAL FLOORS
Physician visits and/or infusions will take place on levels 7, 8,
9, 10, and 11. Each floor will include large exam rooms, procedure rooms, shared and private infusion areas, consultation
suites, staff offices, vitals bays, and more.