This fall marks 10 years since the opening of the North Carolina Cancer Hospital, the state-of-the-art cancer center built by the people of North Carolina for the people.
Faced with a growing population of cancer patients in North Carolina, and an existing care facility that was overcrowded and inadequate for the delivery of modern cancer care, state, local and health leaders used $180 million in public funding to support the construction of the cancer hospital.
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Director of special events at UNC Children’s, former director of special events at UNC Lineberger, breast cancer survivor
It was already a magical place because of the people – Gravely was in a strange way. I knew that taking those people, and putting them in a brand new shiny building – that wasn’t going to change how they were going to care for people, but people would be more positive and encouraged to come to a shiny new building.
Barbara H.
Dr. Jim H.