Hope Lodge

Partners Hospitals Provide Funding for American Cancer Society’s AstraZeneca Hope Lodge

in Jamaica Plain; Ribbon Cutting October 29

Partners leaders join American Cancer Society for Hope Lodge ribbon cutting. From left to right are: James J. Mongan, MD, President and CEO, Partners HealthCare; Peter L. Slavin, MD, President, MGH; Gary L. Gottlieb, MD, MBA, President, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Mayor Thomas M. Menino; Janet E. Porter, PhD, EVP and COO, DCFI; David S. Rosenthal, MD, and Burt Adelman, MD, co-chairs, American Cancer Society Hope Lodge Campaign Cabinet; Don Gudaitis, CEO, American Cancer Society, New England Division; Andrew Prescott, Esq., Chair of the Board, American Cancer Society, New England Division.

October 29- BOSTON — Partners HealthCare physicians joined Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and leaders from the American Cancer Society October 29 at a ribbon cutting for the new AstraZeneca Hope Lodge in the City’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Hope Lodge will provide up to 14,600 nights of free temporary housing each year to hundreds of cancer patients and their family members who travel far from home for medical treatment in Boston.

The Hope Lodge project was funded in part by gifts of $2 million each from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, the founding hospitals of Partners HealthCare.

Located at the site of the former Vincent Memorial Hospital on South Huntington Avenue, the AstraZeneca Hope Lodge will provide temporary housing, shared cooking and dining facilities, a library, screening room, healing garden, and free transportation to treatment, counseling, and other vital cancer support services. The building will also house an American Cancer Society Community Resource Center for the Society’s community programs and patient services, and available to local community groups for gatherings.

This is the 28th Hope Lodge in the nation to be opened by the American Cancer Society. The number of cancer patients in need of housing such services continues to increase; in Boston, prior to the Hope Lodge opening, there were just 61 hospitality rooms available in the City for cancer patients and their families.