princeton – A silvery bell that’s rung when cancer patients complete a successful course of treatment is ready to chime again in a new infusion center opening this coming Monday at WVU Medicine Princeton Community Hospital. The Bluefield Daily Telegraph and other media were given a tour Thursday of the new infusion center by hospital CEO Karen Bowling and Cancer Center Director Khristy Shrewsbury. The new space, which will serve patients from southern West Virginia and Southwest Virginia, opens for patients on Monday, Aug.
26. Bowling said the new infusion center is Phase II of the hospital’s overall plan to provide cancer treatment for patients across southern West Virginia and Southwest Virginia. Phase I was the consolidation of the hospital’s cancer offices located near the hospital’s Parkview entrance.
Along with the new infusion center, the consolidated cancer offices and Phase III, a future cancer center to be built adjacent to the hospital, there are other services designed to make cancer treatment more convenient. “The other thing that’s really important for our patients to know is that we have valet parking,” Bowling said. “The valet parking is on the north side of our Parkview entrance, so when our patients need to go either to our cancer center offices or they need to come here to the infusion center, the easiest way for them to get there is to use the valet parking.
If they need help, somebody from the volunteer desk will wheel them directly back.