Today’s high demand for convenience and service has extended to healthcare, driving the surge of many new neighborhood clinics and small, outlying hospitals. For cancer patients, the need for community-based services is amplified due to their intense treatment regimens, which often take most of their time and energy.
Currently, more than 85% of all cancer care is delivered in the community setting. This evolving trend dictates a new model for the delivery of cancer care. To meet this need, an increasing number of community-based centers now provide technologically advanced, comprehensive cancer care that was previously offered only in the largest metropolitan facilities.
Virginia Oncology Associates (VOA) is the leading provider of community-based cancer care in Hampton Roads, providing patients access to a full range of capabilities including medical, gynecologic and radiation oncology, diagnostic imaging, chemotherapy, pharmaceuticals, clinical trials and supportive services – all in an integrated community outpatient setting, where patients can remain close to their family and friends.
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With VOA's comprehensive, community-based care, PATIENTS can:
- receive all their care and support services at one location, rather than being shuffled from one clinic to another;
- eliminate the strenuous burden of travel, navigating large parking lots and walking long distances;
- take advantage of today’s most-effective technologies for diagnoses and treatments;
- spend more time with their families and friends in their time of need;
- receive their care in warm, comfortable surroundings rather than in sterile, impersonal settings;
- benefit from the best continuity of care, with close collaboration among their medical caregivers and coordination of treatments; and
- participate in nationwide clinical trials of investigational drugs and therapies.
With VOA's comprehensive, community-based care, PHYSICIANS can:
- provide today’s most accurate and effective diagnoses and treatments through advanced technologies;
- adjust patient-care protocols in a timely manner;
- closely coordinate and integrate all patient services and treatments;
- work with specialized oncology nursing teams that share a singular mission;
- offer new treatment options to patients via the nation’s largest research network; and
- participate in the development of new clinical trials.