| Shands at UF Cancer Hospital and Garden of Hope Facts
THE SHANDS AT UF CANCER HOSPITAL GARDEN OF HOPE FACTS
- The Shands at UF Cancer Hospital Garden of Hope is a healing garden
- The healing garden’s concept involves surrounding patients, families and our neighbors with an atmosphere of healing for the body, mind and spirit
- The garden will bear tributes to loved ones living with cancer, those who have defeated cancer and memorials
- The one-acre garden will be located on the southeast side of the Shands at UF Cancer Hospital campus
- Work crews will finish Phase 1 of the Garden of Hope in November 2009
- The garden will also serve as a community center for area residents and will be the site of public events such as concerts and Shands Arts in Medicine programs
- [Learn more about the Garden of Hope]
THE SHANDS AT UF CANCER HOSPITAL WILL ALSO INCLUDE
- 192 private beds in a 500,000-square-foot facility
- Sanctuary of Silence (meditation room) and Sanctuary of Peace (chapel)
- Criser Cancer Resource Center
- Operating rooms and intensive care beds
- Diagnostic and invasive procedure suites
- Supporting outpatient clinical spaces
- An art program
- Significant expansion of Emergency Department and Level I Trauma Center into the Shands at UF Critical Care Center
- Shands at UF Auxiliary Conference Center
- Gainesville Regional Utility South Energy Plant
DID YOU KNOW...
- One in seven adult patients hospitalized at Shands at UF comes to us for a cancer-related condition
- Cancer is the second-leading cause of death in the U.S.
- Florida had an estimated 101,920 new cases of cancer in 2008
- Florida is second only to California in new cases of cancer annually
- Shands at UF patients come from throughout Florida, the Southeast, the nation and about a dozen countries annually
- The cancer hospital is following the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED specifications for energy efficiency. The on-site GRU power plant will save 27 million kilowatts per year (enough to power about 2,250 homes annually)
WHY SHANDS, WHY NOW?
- Shands at UF Cancer Hospital will be uniquely positioned to make major inroads in the fight against cancer with:
- A collaboration with Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa to create greater resources and expertise for cancer research, treatment and prevention
- Aligning national and international cooperation
- Offering a multidisciplinary team approach to cancer care and research
- Enabling access to leading-edge research conducted at Shands by UF scientists and physicians
- Expediting medical research into direct and applied patient care
- Increasing faculty and staff to expand cancer research and clinical trials
Information
For more information about cancer services at Shands at UF to schedule a new patient appointment, please call (800) 749-7424 or (352) 265-8000 or visit the Shands at UF Cancer Services page.
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