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WellSpan Health and Johns Hopkins
Medicine announce new oncology collaboration across South Central
Pennsylvania
Patients offered expanded access to
life-saving medicine
YORK,
Pa. (NOV. 9, 2021) – WellSpan Health and Johns Hopkins Medicine today
announced plans to fight cancer together in South Central Pennsylvania. The
comprehensive collaboration will combine the expertise of WellSpan cancer
physicians and programs with the innovative clinical, research and
educational capabilities of Johns Hopkins Medicine.
WellSpan
patients across South Central Pennsylvania who have cancer will benefit from
a collaborative approach between the two organizations through shared
treatment protocols, improved genomics capabilities, research projects and
access to Johns Hopkins Medicine’s expanded network of subspecialty
physicians. All of these services will broaden the options close to home for
life-saving care of patients with complex cancers.
“Fighting
cancer requires a trusted partner, and at WellSpan Health, we are expanding
on our collaboration with Johns Hopkins Medicine to deliver the very best for
our patients,” says Roxanna Gapstur, Ph.D., R.N., president & chief
executive officer, WellSpan Health. “Our combined teams of physicians,
faculty and research scientists will work closely with patients to offer the
latest treatments and leading-edge therapeutic options within a
state-of-the-art program for our friends and neighbors in South Central
Pennsylvania.”
WellSpan
Health and the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have had a long-standing
clinical and research collaboration since 2017, with a designated
comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute.
“This
relationship represents our shared approach to bringing the best care to
patients in the South Central Pennsylvania region, and we are so proud to
expand the collaboration to include clinical trials, peer-to-peer
consultations and educational opportunities,” says Kevin W. Sowers, M.S.N.,
R.N., F.A.A.N., president of the Johns Hopkins Health System and executive
vice president of Johns Hopkins Medicine.
WellSpan’s
cancer experts see nearly 4,000 new patients annually across all their cancer
centers, including the newly
expanded WellSpan York Cancer Center, which opened this past summer. The
collaboration agreement with Johns Hopkins Medicine will extend to and
benefit all of WellSpan’s cancer centers, including the WellSpan Adams Cancer
Center, the WellSpan Ephrata Cancer Center, the WellSpan Sechler Family
Cancer Center and WellSpan cancer care locations in Franklin County.
To
learn more about the collaboration between WellSpan Health and Johns Hopkins
Medicine, visit WellSpan.org/cancer.
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