BAMF Health has formed a partnership with the University of Kansas Health System, the University of Kansas Medical Center, and Children’s Mercy Hospital to create a new theranostics research and treatment center. Physician in Chief at the University of Kansas Cancer Center, Dr. Jeffrey Holzbeierlein, explains how theranostics work.
“Think about a scan that can detect a specific or certain type of cancer in the body, and once you’re able to image it or detect it, then you can attach a molecule that can treat it.”
This will be BAMF’s third clinic, after opening its Grand Rapids location in August 2022 and a facility in downtown Detroit under a partnership with Henry Ford Health. That location is part of a new life science campus that is expected to open in 2027.
President and CEO of The University of Kansas Health System, Bob Page, says this partnership will allow patients to stay local.
“Now we have a partner outside of the state who wants to invest in our community, and what that’s going to do is just build an economic force here. It’s going to build a health care destination.”
BAMF Health hopes to sign four to six additional partnerships with other health systems this year. It will develop and open 25 cancer clinics within the next three to five years.
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