Accelitech Model Delivers CyberKnife Technology to Two New Cancer Centers
Accelitech is pleased to announce the launch of two new CyberKnife Centers at Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center in Lincoln, Nebraska and Penrose St. Francis Health Services in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Both hospitals obtained the CyberKnife systems through joint ventures created and managed by Accelitech, and in partnership with physicians.
The Accuray CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System is used primarily to ablate tumors throughout the body but also for other procedures as an alternative to invasive surgery.
Newly opened, The Lincoln center is the first in Nebraska’s capital city, with the intent to serve much of the state. Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center is ranked as a Top 100 Hospital in the nation by Thompson and is recognized by the American Nurses’ Credentialing Center as a “magnet hospital” for excellence in nursing. Kerwin Brandt, CEO of Accelitech, LLC, is excited about the development of this new center. “This venture involves a top-notch hospital in the region. They have a phenomenal relationship with their physicians,” says Brandt.
Charlotte Liggit, Vice President of Business Development at Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center, said “Accelitech created access to the capital we did not have previously through an innovative business partnership.” According to Liggit, the new CyberKnife Center “makes sense in rural Nebraska.” Patients are able to receive complete treatment in one to five doses, unlike other cancer treatments that may require up to 45 treatments. As an alternative to invasive surgery, the treatments provided at the new CyberKnife Center will allow rural patients to return home quickly, without the delay often coupled with invasive procedures.”
The new CyberKnife Center at Penrose Cancer Center in Colorado Springs expects to begin CyberKnife treatments in the summer of 2009. The first hospital in southern Colorado to utilize the CyberKnife system, with this addition Penrose will be able to offer the most complete array of radiation oncology tools in the state.
“With Penrose St. Francis acquiring the only robotic radiosurgery system with proven sub-millimeter accuracy, we can make untreatable and unreachable tumors a thing of the past,” said Dr. Anuj Peddada, radiation oncologist for the Penrose Cancer Center. “Because of its unrivaled accuracy, we can deliver the entire treatment, non-invasively, in one to five treatments.”
Kerwin Brandt, CEO of Accelitech LLC, said, “We are pleased to be working with one of the premier cancer treatment centers in the region and the state. The highly respected physicians and staff at the Penrose Cancer Center are excellent partners for this venture, and all of us are looking forward to the enhanced patient care they will provide.”