Introducing the Gayle M. Jacob Cancer Center

 

Allegiance Health’s Gayle M. Jacob Cancer Center is dedicated to providing a higher level of cancer care for our community. This specially designed healing environment has been created to extend an exceptional, supportive experience to our patients and their families. 

The expanded Cancer Center offers technologically advanced care in a healing environment, which includes calming decorative art, increased natural lighting and soft music to soothe both patients and their families who are facing a stressful and vulnerable time. 

Other special features of Allegiance Health’s Gayle M. Jacob Cancer Center include:

  • More than double the current space available from 4,370 to 9,960 square feet
  • Increased number of exam rooms
  • Sixteen infusion rooms with patient-controlled temperatures, capability for increased privacy, televisions with headsets for each patient as well as a garden with a waterfall to promote comfort and emotional well-being
  • Six private patient scheduling areas
  • Patient Navigator and consulting rooms to provide individualized attention
  • Cutting edge complementary and integrative medicine options
  • The most advanced medical and radiation technologies, for example, the Clinac®iX linear accelerator and chemotherapy IV robotics

The expansion will also increase privacy and consolidate cancer-related treatments and services in a single location, which will greatly increase the comfort and convenience of our patients and their families, close to home.

Gayle M. Jacob’s Story

Gayle M JacobThe newly renovated Cancer Center at Allegiance Health is being named in honor of Gayle M. Jacob, a community member and Allegiance Community Partner who has volunteered her time and talent toward this project for more than 13 years. Inspired by her own experience when her mother was diagnosed with cancer in 1998, Gayle helped to shape changes that will strengthen this Center’s focus on the unique needs of patients with cancer and their families.

The Two-Phase Renovation

The Cancer Center has moved from the Second Floor to the Third Floor of the Allegiance Professional Building, more than doubling its space to 9,960 square feet.

To ensure service to our patients continues without interruption during the renovation, work is taking place in two phases. Most of our patient areas are now complete, and our support areas are scheduled for completion in Spring 2012.

Phase I – Now complete

  • Reception area and family lounge
  • Patient scheduling suites
  • Examination rooms
  • Infusion sites
  • Offices
  • Oncology Pharmacy
  • Laboratory

Phase II – Completion expected in Spring 2012

  • Donor wall installation
  • Additional infusion sites
  • Resource & Appearance Center
  • Patient Navigator office and consulting rooms
  • Staff area and storage
  • Correctional area
  • Second Floor redesign