Ellis Fischel Cancer Center
| Ellis Fischel Cancer Center | |
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| University of Missouri Health Care | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Columbia, Missouri, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 38°56′18″N 92°19′43″W / 38.938314°N 92.328591°WCoordinates: 38°56′18″N 92°19′43″W / 38.938314°N 92.328591°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Oncology |
| Hospital type | Specialist |
| Affiliated university | University of Missouri |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | None (Level I trauma center through University Hospital) |
| Beds | 60 |
| Speciality | Cancer |
| History | |
| Founded | 1938 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.ellisfischel.org/index.shtml |
Ellis Fischel Cancer Center is a member of University of Missouri Health Care in Columbia, Missouri. It was the first free-standing cancer center west of the Mississippi River and the second such institution of its kind in the United States. The center is now connected to University of Missouri Hospital at 1 Hospital Drive. The former Ellis Fischel Cancer Center was located on Business Loop 70 West.
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The beginnings of Ellis Fischel can be traced back to 1931 when the Missouri State Medical Association created a committee on cancer. Due to the lack of facilities, the first cancer hospital was a roving hospital that cared for cancer patients of all ages in hospitals across the state. A plan was conceived for a centrally-located hospital in 1937. Dr. Ellis Fischel, a leading St. Louis physician, envisioned a statewide plan for the control of cancer, which included a State Cancer Hospital, equipped with the latest facilities for treatment, staffed by specially trained physicians, with provision for scientific investigation into the causes of the disease, and satellite diagnostic tumor clinics established around the state. Missouri Governor Lloyd C. Stark, a major supporter of this plan, signed a bill to erect the hospital in 1937.
Columbia was chosen as the site of the hospital because of the central location and the presence of the University of Missouri, a major cancer research center. The seven-story, 104-bed hospital was built on U.S. Route 40 (now Interstate 70) in 1938. Ellis Fischel was expanded in 1975 to increase laboratory space, clinic capability and operating room suites.
Ellis Fischel Cancer Center joined University of Missouri Health Care in 1990. All inpatient services were moved to University Hospital; outpatient services, such as radiation clinics and screening services, were still located at the facility off of Business Loop 70.
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