Dana-Farber to provide hematologyoncology care at Holy Family Hospital in Methuen

On June 1st, Dana-Farber Community Cancer Care (DFCCC) will open at Holy Family Hospital’s Methuen campus, which has been renovated for their arrival. DFCCC is transferring its current practice, located on Holy Family Hospital’s Haverhill campus, to this new location. This new site is an extension of Steward and Dana-Farber’s oncology affiliation, which currently includes Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton, MA, and all DFCCC physician practices.

“This is a significant milestone for our local community and we are very pleased to welcome the Dana-Farber Community Cancer Care team to our campus,” said Joseph Roach, president of Holy Family Hospital in Methuen and Haverhill. “Our patients and their families who are facing this disease will have access to Dana-Farber’s highly regarded hematology/oncology care right here, at Holy Family Hospital, where many patients currently get primary care and other specialty care.”

"We are very pleased to offer this option for patients with cancer in the Merrimack Valley,” said Andrew Norden, MD, MPH, chief medical officer of DFCCC. “At the new site, Steward patients will be able to get sophisticated cancer care in a convenient, community setting closer to home.”

Holy Family Hospital’s Medical Oncologists Drs. Laura Caprario and Ankur Mehta will be joining the DFCCC team and will continue to provide hematology/oncology care to patients, full-time, along with Catherine Iasiello, MD, from DFCCC. Staff in the newly renovated unit at Holy Family Methuen will follow the same policies, procedures, and quality standards used throughout DFCCC’s network of care, and patients will have easy access to advanced care and resources, such as clinical trials, at Dana-Farber’s headquarters in Boston and locations throughout New England, if needed. Steward patients, who had temporarily transferred their care to DFCCC Haverhill while renovations at Holy Family were ongoing, will transfer back to the DFCCC unit at Holy Family Methuen when the unit opens.