Event Raises Money for Swedish/Edmonds' Planned Expansion of Cancer Services

On Nov. 18, more than 500 hundred people helped raise more than $420,000 to support the funding of charity care and a major expansion of cancer services at Swedish/Edmonds.

The event, Celebrating Change, was held at the Lynnwood Convention Center. 

A new two-story, medical oncology facility on the hospital’s campus, as well as renovation of the adjacent existing radiation therapy center, will provide  cancer-care services close to home for residents of Edmonds and other communities in south Snohomish and north King counties.

The new cancer facility is on schedule to open in 2012. 

“All of us, including our doctors, nurses, clinical and administrative staff, are excited to build and expand access to state-of-the-art oncology care and research in the local community,” says Richard McGee, M.D., FACP, an oncologist and hematologist at Swedish/Edmonds and president of Puget Sound Cancer Centers.

“The new cancer center and renovation of the existing facility will provide residents living north of Seattle with increased access to cancer medications, new treatment modalities and expanded access to new clinical trials.”

The Campaign for Swedish, the largest fundraising campaign in the Swedish Foundation’s history, has raised more than $84 million and has helped fund a wide range of programs and initiatives since the campaign began in 2007.