The Mercy Hospital Foundation have announced that building works have begun on the long awaited Mercy Cancer CARE Centre.
The building is just minutes away from the the main Mercy Hospital, and will give a quiet and safe place for cancer patients and their families.
The CARE Centre will be the first to provide Psycho-oncology services to patients as well as their family members.
Speaking about the service they will offer at the Mercy Cancer CARE Centre, Dr Tara Houlihan, Senior Clinical Psychologist, Psycho-oncology at the Mercy University Hospital said:
“Our team will offer psychological support to patients and families at every step of the journey – following diagnosis, during treatment, and beyond - and will provide assessment and a range of psychologically-based therapeutic interventions matched to the patient and their family’s emotional, psychological, social, and spiritual needs.”
It is anticipated that the Centre will be complete by September 2023.