University of Maryland Capital Region Health is gearing up to unveil an $80 million cancer center on its Largo hospital campus, a care hub the health system is betting will help to change outcomes for its underserved Prince George’s County patients.
The cancer center opens Monday across an initial 35,000 square feet for prevention and screening, diagnosis and treatment, recovery and palliative care. It’s located in the new 100,000-square-foot Center for Advanced Medicine, which broke ground in April 2022, connected to the UM Capital Region Medical Center.
That four-story building devotes two floors to cancer care, and a third to multispecialty clinics including women’s health, heart and vascular, neurosciences, orthopedics, trauma, primary care and outpatient testing — all infrastructure designed to similarly expand access to care for the system’s patients, according to UM Capital. Shell space on the fourth floor could allow the cancer center’s services to grow over time.
That capacity is crucial in the health system’s pursuit to reverse the county’s cancer rates — and related death rates — that sit well above other markets across the country, said Nathaniel Richardson, president and CEO of UM Capital, which is part of Baltimore’s University of Maryland Medical System.
