Beth Israel Assumes Responsibilities for St. Vincent’s Cancer Center

We are delighted to report that Beth Israel Medical Center will officially assume clinical operations for the former St. Vincent’s Comprehensive Cancer Center (SVCCC), effective June 3, 2010. The facility will now be known as The Beth Israel Comprehensive Cancer Center.  In addition, Beth Israel and Aptium Oncology, Inc., which currently provides administrative services for the operation of the facility, have reached an agreement for Aptium to continue in this administrative role.  Most importantly, this proposed transfer of services will ensure critical continuity of care for the thousands of patients who make over 60,000 visits annually. 

Under Beth Israel’s clinical leadership, the Center, which opened in 1996, will continue to provide a full spectrum of diagnostic and therapeutic services, including medical, surgical and radiation oncology, diagnostic imaging, nationally recognized research and cancer supportive services at its beautiful facility at 325 West 15^th Street, between 8^th and 9^th Avenues. We will continue to operate Beth Israel’s multi-disciplinary Cancer Center located at the hospital’s Phillips Ambulatory Care Center on Union Square East between 14^th and 15^th Streets. 

The physicians and staff of the former SVCCC and Beth Israel are working closely and collaboratively to bring these two programs together. There is tremendous synergy between the two, which makes this partnership particularly noteworthy. Both cancer teams are excited and optimistic about joining in partnership to become one of the largest and most comprehensive multi-site cancer programs in the Northeast.