Yawkey Center for Cancer Care
Opening 2011
A new model for cancer care
Imagine walking into a light-filled atrium, meeting with your care team in a spacious consultation room, and finding a peaceful moment in a healing garden. This is what a visit to Dana-Farber will be like in 2011, when the new, state-of-the-art Yawkey Center for Cancer Care opens.
Designed with advice from patients, families, and staff, the Yawkey Center will retain Dana-Farber's trademark compassionate, family-centered, and innovative care, and create an environment that fosters healing.
The building will rise 14 stories above Brookline Avenue on the corner of Jimmy Fund Way and add 275,000 square feet of clinical space, as well as seven underground levels for parking. With 100 exam rooms, 150 infusion chairs, and 15 patient and family consultation rooms, the Yawkey Center will streamline patient services and provide flexible, comfortable space. It will be a "green" building — designed, constructed, and operated in an environmentally and socially responsible way.
Patients can walk indoors to all their appointments, and clinicians and scientists will be in close proximity to one another. The building will also connect Dana-Farber to other campus buildings and to its clinical partners, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital Boston, providing patients with more seamless care coordination.
Named to honor the late Tom and Jean Yawkey in thanks to their foundation's leadership support, the center will signify Dana-Farber's personalized cancer care that is guided by laboratory research, enhanced by sophisticated technology, and provided with concern for each patient's emotional well-being.
