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Minds, hearts and technology united against cancer.
Olathe Medical Center brings a unique weapon to your fight against
cancer. We combine leading-edge cancer treatment with a caring,
connected team of caregivers. It’s a collaboration of
cross-disciplinary expertise that helps create a strategic blueprint of
cancer treatment especially for you.
Collaborative thinking
At every stage from diagnostics through treatment and ultimately
follow-up, your progress is guided by not one physician or radiologist
or oncologist, but by a collected panel of medical specialists. It’s
Team You and it’s medical teamwork at its most effective.
Personalized plans
Your current health status, your type of cancer, your personal
wishes, plus our collective knowledge of the most advanced cancer
technologies are all vital factors in a very individualized treatment
plan designed for a positive outcome. We’re not simply fighting cancer.
We’re specifically fighting yours.
Not just great minds against cancer. Great hearts, too.
You’re
never alone in your cancer-fighting journey. We provide critical
emotional support groups and resources both to patients and their
families at every step. We’re accredited by the Commission on Cancer
with commendation in the Community Hospital Cancer program category
(only one in four hospitals nationwide receives this approval). What
this means quite simply is that we put our hearts into your treatment
as well as our expertise and technology.
Areas of excellence
Olathe Medical Center applies our unique collaborate and
cross-disciplinary strategies in these specific areas of excellence to
treat cancer:
Recognized by the Commission on Cancer
Olathe Medical
Center’s cancer program is accredited by the Commission on Cancer with
commendation in the Community Hospital Cancer program category. Only
one in four hospitals nationwide that treat cancer receive approval
from the Commission.
Cancer Support Groups and Resources
Learning to deal
with cancer or supporting a loved one coping with the disease is
difficult. Olathe Health System provides cancer support groups provide
an outlet for individuals seeking help, encouragement and companionship.
- Cancer Support Groups and Programs at Olathe Medical Center
- Cancer Resource Center,
including registered dietitian, pharmacist, social worker, medical
librarian, chaplain, wigs/hats/turbans, nutritional supplements, breast
prostheses, support, info classes and materials. Call 913-393-8230 for
more information.
- Hospice of Olathe Medical Center
Other Cancer Resources
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