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David Lee Outpatient Cancer Center Directions to CAMC Memorial Hospital Charleston Area Medical Center’s David Lee Outpatient Cancer Center, an ambulatory care department, is designed to provide a multidisciplinary approach to comprehensive care for patients with hematologic and oncologic diseases. This center provides the highest quality of care possible through the coordination and enhancement of multiple hematology/oncology services in an academic environment utilizing internationally recognized evidence-based standards of care and best practice patterns. The David Lee Outpatient Cancer Center provides quality outpatient services of the type and levels necessary to support the teaching mission of the institution in its affiliation with the West Virginia University Medical School. The center provides services to the surrounding communities, which are not readily available from other community medical/health care resources. The services of various indigent programs are available and the Center facilitates access for qualifying patients. Services provided by the David Lee Outpatient Cancer Center include hematology and oncology patients. These services are located on the first floor of CAMC Memorial Hospital’s Medical Staff Office Building. Frequently performed procedures, services,
processes or functions 2. Specialty referral and consultative physician services
3. Bone marrow biopsies 4. Patient education procedures 5. Telephone triage 6. Pharmacy care 7. Laboratory services 8. Chemotherapy treatment Hours of operation
Weekend chemotherapy treatments when required are done at CAMC Memorial Hospital’s outpatient Ambulatory Infusion Center. A physician is on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. All after hour calls are answered by the answering service and forwarded to the on-call physician. If the physician deems appropriate, patients are seen in the emergency room when the office is closed. Criteria for entry/admission to service The David Lee Outpatient Cancer Center provides service to adult patients 18 years of age or older and emancipated minors (ages 16 to 18) who select the facility as their care provider for hematology and oncology management. Patients are accepted on a referral only basis with consultative services and treatment being provided. The referral may be generated from inpatient consults, in-patient follow-ups, outside or partner facility and from the community. The need for services is based on the patient’s medical diagnosis and referring physician’s request for services. The referring physician and patient will receive specific treatment plans after the initial consultation by one of our physicians. The referring physician must approve additional treatment plans/referrals as needed. |