Ground Broken on Disney Cancer Center

A groundbreaking ceremony was held for Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center’s Roy and Patricia Disney Cancer Center Oct 25. Part of not-for-profit Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, the freestanding cancer center will include a radiation oncology center, medical oncology offices, a gynecologic oncology clinic, a chemotherapy infusion center, and a prostate cancer multidisciplinary program. Roy and Patricia Disney, who attended the ceremony with her daughter Susan Disney Lord, donated $10 million to the new cancer center. The center, which will cost $36 million to build, is being funded entirely by community donations. Film studios and other representatives of the entertainment industry have raised $4 million thus far. The 55,000-sq. foot, four-story cancer center, will open in early 2009. It is in the Burbank Media District, at the northwest corner of Buena Vista Street and Alameda Avenue.