Frankford Hospital has joined the Jefferson Cancer Network (JCN) effective July 1. Frankford Hospital, a community teaching hospital with three locations, the Frankford, Torresdale and Bucks campuses, has been a member of the Jefferson Health System since October.

Frankford’s cancer program currently provides oncology services at all three hospitals. As of July 1, Frankford’s Department of Radiation Oncology will be staffed by three Jefferson faculty members at the Torresdale campus and will provide state-of-the-art radiotherapy for all cancer sites and brachytherapy services for cancer patients throughout northeast Philadelphia and Bucks County.

“We are pleased to welcome Frankford to the Jefferson Cancer Network,” said network director Walter J. Curran Jr., M.D., clinical director of Thomas Jefferson University’s Kimmel Cancer Center. “Frankford is a leading health care provider in both northeast Philadelphia and Bucks County and we look forward to collaborating with them to continue to provide comprehensive cancer services in the region.”

The Jefferson Cancer Network is a consortium of institutions dedicated to improving cancer care and increasing clinical research. Jefferson’s Kimmel Cancer Center is the cornerstone of the network, which recently established the Jefferson Oncology Group (JOG), a cooperative program to enhance clinical and translational cancer research, including clinical trial development. Kimmel Cancer Center is a member of several regional cancer cooperative research groups as well, including the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG), the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) and the Gynecologic Oncologic Group (GOG).

The Jefferson Cancer Network supports the cancer programs of its members through education, information, research and cancer program development. The Jefferson Cancer Network members include Jefferson’s Kimmel Cancer Center, Atlantic City Medical Center, Bryn Mawr Hospital, duPont Hospital for Children, Grand View Hospital, Kimmel Cancer Center’s Radiation Oncology Program at Chestnut Hill, Kimmel Cancer Center’s Radiation Oncology Program at Lower Bucks, Lankenau Hospital, Mercy Community Hospital, Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, Mercy Hospital of Philadelphia, Methodist Hospital, Riddle Memorial Hospital, Underwood-Memorial Hospital and Wills Eye Hospital.

The three Frankford campuses include Frankford Hospital – Frankford, located at Frankford Avenue and Wakeling Street in Philadelphia (19124); Frankford Hospital – Torresdale, located at Knights and Red Lion Roads in Philadelphia (19114); and Frankford Hospital – Bucks County, at 380 N. Oxford Valley Road in Langhorne (19047).

Published: 7-2-1999