On Mar. 23, 2023, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (FHCRC) announced a new building in South Lake Union comes with new imaging suites, automated parking and a care model that puts patients at the center of everything.

Each treatment floor will house three separate care neighborhoods — a central core where staff and clinicians work side-by-side, surrounded by a cluster of 10 universal or “flex” rooms. These rooms function as flexible “efficiency apartments” for patients (and caregivers) whenever they come in for exams, blood draws and/or infusions, with 30 rooms total on each treatment floor.

Just over a year ago, on April 1, 2022, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance became Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, a single, independent, nonprofit organization that is also a clinically integrated part of UW Medicine and UW Medicine’s cancer program.

Each treatment floor will house three separate care neighborhoods — a central core where staff and clinicians work side-by-side, surrounded by a cluster of 10 universal or “flex” rooms. These rooms function as flexible “efficiency apartments” for patients (and caregivers) whenever they come in for exams, blood draws and/or infusions, with 30 rooms total on each treatment floor.

A pilot version of this model is already in use in the existing building in the Bezos Family Immunotherapy Clinic on the sixth floor as well as on the seventh floor, where gastrointestinal cancers are currently treated.