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Welcome to Cancer Treatment Centers of America Atlanta.
It is truly a privilege and an honor
to have the opportunity to welcome you to our facility.
We'd like to share some things with you that
make us very proud.
This includes CTCA's patient-centric medical care,
our medical research, our supportive care,
and all the other things that we use
to fulfill the CTCA mission.
We're happy to have you today, as we pull back our curtain
and take you on a tour of our comprehensive cancer network,
where all of our care is delivered under one roof.
The Mother Standard of care is the philosophy
that attracted me to CTCA.
It's ingrained in each of our stakeholders.
It calls on us to treat each and every patient
we encounter with the same compassion,
love, and support we want our own mother
or loved one to receive if she were diagnosed with cancer.
When a patient decides they want to come for treatment at Cancer
Treatment Centers of America, they're
assigned a nurse navigator that helps
to walk them through and plan their initial cancer treatment
diagnosis as they can meet their medical oncologist
and receive their treatment plan.
The physician/patient relationship at CTCA
is the engagement of the physician fully.
We care about the outcomes of our patients.
We're fully present.
No place I'd rather be and I'm not in a hurry--
I'm here to answer every single question.
CTCA Atlanta is by far the most beautiful hospital I've
had the privilege of entering.
I've worked in hospitals all across the country,
but this one is over 500,000 square feet.
We have over 200 physicians here practicing
a variety of specialties, ranging from infusion
to chemotherapy to surgical oncology.
Everything associated with cancer treatment
is right here in our facility.
I've been with CTCA about eight years.
I walk across the hall and ask the radiologist
to go through the study with me and every single time
they do it.
That's how safe, effective communication is performed.
That's how good plans are made.
We are all fellowship-trained surgeons.
We have surgeons who are highly skilled in robotics.
So that allows a minimally invasive approach
for our patients, and when we perform minimally invasive
procedures, it actually allows the patient
to return back to their lives at a faster time, as well.
One of the services that we're particularly
proud of ASURE Program--
our Advanced Surgical Recovery Program--
where we look at the patient before surgery,
during surgery, and after surgery,
as we look to optimize their outcome,
decrease their length of stay, and decrease readmission rates.
This allows us to get them back home
with their families so they can either resume their treatment
or resume their life activities that are waiting for them.
Here at CTCA on all campuses, we're
dedicated to brief, safe, effective courses
of radiation therapy.
And this impacts prostate patients, breast patients,
metastatic patients-- all of them treated faster,
but still safely, and to the highest precision.
We also have a multitude of interventional services,
including interventional pulmonology,
interventional radiology, interventional
gastroenterology, and interventional pain.
This allows us to really focus on precision medicine,
targeted therapy, genomic analysis.
And this is what our patients want,
it's what our patients need, and this gives us
opportunities for clinical trials and exposure, as well.
We have been one of the foremost leaders
in an integrative model.
All of our patients have access to our naturopaths--
our nutritionists, as well as our mind and body therapists,
and pastoral care.
We need all of the things that get us
down the road of this journey of cancer,
and too often, those services are either
not offered by a cancer team or they're compartmentalized.
But here, CTCA is defined by the presence and interaction
of all of those services that a patient and their family
will need during their cancer journey.
For example, our mind and body therapists--
they focus on anxiety, but for some of our patients,
a body image is important, particularly
in our breast cancer population.
So our patients are given that option.
The reality is that we have been involved
in the state-of-the-art of cancer care since we've been
here.
I think if you told me 10 years ago
that about a quarter of my patients
would be getting immunotherapy and not
chemotherapy, I would have said-- this is nonsense.
But that's what we're doing now.
And that is the promise of cancer care.
And there's a lot more to come.
Patient satisfaction can a mean a lot of things.
It's great if a hospital has ample parking
or if the elevators are fast.
But at the end of the day, if they
would recommend you to take care of a family member or a friend,
then you've served them well.
Our patient satisfaction results are amongst the top 10%
of hospitals in the nation.
Thank you for joining us today.
We've enjoyed having you, and we hope
that you'll consider us when you make your personal decision
about your cancer treatment future for you or your loved
ones.
To learn more information about us,
please check out our website or give us a call.