It’s been a year since St. Elizabeth’s Hospital sold its half of the Cancer Treatment Center in Swansea to the Memorial Hospital network. Now St. E.’s is moving forward with plans to open its own radiation oncology clinic in O’Fallon.

The clinic will share a new building with Cancer Care Specialists of Illinois, a medical oncology physicians group. This will allow cancer patients to get radiation, chemotherapy and imaging services all in one place.

“We estimate that almost half of the patients in our area receive cancer treatment across the river,” said St. Elizabeth’s President and CEO Patti Fischer. “And especially with cancer patients, they can get debilitated and very sick. It’s so much better to receive treatment closer to home.”

The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board recently approved plans for the new radiation oncology clinic, which hasn’t yet been named. The target opening date is January 2020.

St. Elizabeth’s will lease nearly 12,000 square feet in a new 30,000-square-foot building at 301 Regency Park Drive, just west of the hospital, for the radiation oncology clinic. The building will be constructed and owned by Green Mount Enterprises, a development company formed by Cancer Care Specialists.

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