The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNM HCS) is soliciting programming and architectural/engineering proposals for the Cancer Research and Treatment Center. Current plans for the potentially 180,000-sf facility, the second phase of the 80,000-sf Cancer Research Facility built in 1997, include two floors of wet lab research as well as facilities for patient holding, outpatient diagnosis and treatment, Chemotherapy, Radiation Oncology, clinical trials, dry lab research, administration, medical offices, patient education, and community meeting rooms. Programming and planning for the project, which has a maximum allowable construction cost of $37.8 million, is expected to begin in August. The freestanding multi-level facility will focus on the Planetree concept of patient-centered, holistic care.
UNM HSC's Cancer Research Facility is the only New Mexico academic health care facility dedicated to providing state-of-the-art cancer diagnosis and treatment. The Research and Treatment Center is part of a five-year plan to become one of the 70 National Cancer Institute-recognized Comprehensive Regional Cancer Centers.
