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PR Release Date, April 26, 2011

The Sacred Heart Cancer Center broke ground recently on a new building at Mack Bayou Center in Santa Rosa Beach that will house outpatient treatment services and offices for cancer specialists.The new Cancer Center will include 12 semi-private chemotherapy infusion chairs, two private chemotherapy infusion beds, six patient exam rooms, and an infusion pharmacy. The expanded center will provide more than double the space of existing offices on the campus of Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast. The Cancer Center will occupy the first floor of the new building which is expected to open in early 2012.“We are very excited to be breaking ground on a new cancer center for our community,” Roger Hall, president of Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast, said. “This new center will enable us to improve the comfort, privacy, convenience and safety of our patients.”“Our new Cancer Center will really bring a significant level of care to our community’s cancer patients,” says Terri Smith, vice president of Sacred Heart Cancer Services. “Our vision is to be the region’s premier cancer center. The facility will combine excellent treatment technology, great doctors and staff, a healing environment, and individualized patient care supported by the latest knowledge and research.”The 2nd floor of the new building will house Sacred Heart Medical Group Ob/Gyn physicians, Dr. Melinda Graham and Dr. Julianne Kenton. They will move from their current location in the Medical Office Building at SHHEC. Dr. Kimberly Hood, an Ob/Gyn currently practicing at Sacred Heart Medical Group in Niceville, is also expected to join their practice and will split her time between Niceville and Santa Rosa Beach.

The Sacred Heart Medical Oncology Group will also be expanding this summer with the addition of Dr. Mose Hayes, III, a medical oncologist and hematologist who will begin seeing patients in August. Dr. Hayes received his medical degree from Tulane School of Medicine in New Orleans. He completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Tulane and completed fellowship training in Hematology/Oncology at University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas. He will join Dr. Thomas R. Johnson, a board-certified medical oncologist/hematologist practicing in Miramar Beach with Sacred Heart since 2008. In addition to Miramar Beach, Sacred Heart Cancer Center has locations in Pensacola, Milton and Opp, Ala.

Sacred Heart Cancer Center is affiliated with MD Anderson Physicians Network®. As a result of this affiliation, Sacred Heart cancer patients gain access to the latest clinical care guidelines and quality initiatives developed by teams of specialists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, the nation’s leader in cancer care. The guidelines are founded upon research to improve outcomes for patients receiving cancer treatment.

Experts at MD Anderson regularly communicate with Sacred Heart physicians via videoconferences where they discuss the cases of individual patients and share knowledge based on research. Physicians Network also provides Sacred Heart with ongoing rigorous review of its standards and practices.

Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast is a 58-bed hospital located just east of Destin in Miramar Beach. Since opening its doors to patient care in January 2003, the not-for-profit hospital has grown steadily and continues to fulfill its mission to improve the health of the community at large, with special attention to service of the poor. The hospital was named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® by Thomson Reuters in 2009 and was also among 23 hospitals in the country to receive the Everest Award for National Benchmarks.

For more information about Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast, please call (850) 278-3600 or visit www.sacredheartemerald.org. For more information about Sacred Heart Cancer Center, please call (877) 904-HOPE or visit www.sacred-heart.org/cancercenter.