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Y O U R A L L I E S
A G A I N S T C A N C E R
The InnerPacific Alliance
for Cancer Care is committed to
providing quality services to cancer
patients in the Inland Northwest.
Call
(509) 228-1000
or go to
innerpacificalliance.org
.
Allies for Better
Cancer Care
LEADING EDGE
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Kootenai Health
recently joined
forces with Providence Health
Care and Cancer Care Northwest to
provide integrated, comprehensive
care for cancer patients in the
Inland Northwest. Together the
three have formed a regional
cancer alliance called InnerPacific
Alliance for Cancer Care, LLC.
C A R E F O R E V E R Y P A T I E N T
The three organizations—the
region’s premier health care leaders
in cancer services—shared a desire
to create a regional cancer alliance
aimed at elevating the quality,
coordination and experience for
cancer patients and their families
throughout the region. The alliance
was formalized and launched its
first initiative—a comprehensive
radiation oncology program—this
past January.
Through the Alliance outpatient
radiation oncology services are now
provided by Cancer Care North-
west. Patients are able to receive
comprehensive, personalized radia-
tion oncology services from a single
provider that coordinates services
at member locations throughout
the Coeur d’Alene–Spokane area.
Services are available at Kootenai
Clinic Cancer Services locations in
Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls, as
well as six additional locations in
Spokane.
R A D I A T I O N O N C O L O G Y
I M P R O V E M E N T S
The radiation oncology program
has a team of experts that includes
eight radiation oncologists plus
radiation therapists, nurses, medi-
cal physicists, dosimetrists and
support staff. Altogether more than
65 individuals have come together
from the three member organiza-
tions to deliver comprehensive,
coordinated radiation oncology
services.
Patients in northern Idaho will
continue to receive this care in
R E G I O N A L C A N C E R A L L I A N C E
L A U N C H E S F I R S T T R E AT M E N T
P R O G R A M
Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls. Now
they will have the added benefit of
many providers working together on
their care.
A C O L L A B O R A T I V E M O D E L
As the program grows, members of
the InnerPacific Alliance for Cancer
Care will work together to develop
additional cancer programs that will
improve access to high-quality, spe-
cialized care throughout the region.
“Residents of our region should
have access to excellent cancer
care, with appropriate options,
medical expertise, the best tech-
nology and caring support, without
having to leave the area,” Jon
Ness, CEO of Kootenai Health,
said. “We created the alliance to do
just that. Patients now have a team
of physicians collaborating on their
care, greater access to technology
and care that is coordinated.”
For more information on the
InnerPacific Alliance for Cancer
Care and the organizations that
have formed the alliance as part of
a shared commitment to providing
quality services to cancer patients
in the Inland Northwest, call
(
509
)
228-1000
or go to
InnerPacificAlliance.org
.