The Riverside Middle Peninsula Cancer Center at Riverside Walter Reed Hospital, Gloucester, is in the midst of a significant expansion to benefit oncology patients and their families, along with medical providers and other team members.
The construction project, scheduled for completion next spring, will add four new clinical exam rooms, three for medical oncology and one for radiation oncology. This will boost the number of clinical exam rooms from eight to 12.The work on the building will also enlarge the facility’s oncology infusion center from 12 chairs to 16 bays, plus one private room. Each bay will have a guest chair for patient support.
The center will offer two new restrooms and two additional nourishment stations with water and ice dispensers, as well as refrigerators stocked with popsicles and other snacks for patients and visitors.
Other upgrades will include the following:
—A dedicated blood draw room with twice as many chairs;—Upgraded changing rooms near the linear accel...