2025 Report to the Community - Flipbook - Page 10
Expanding Cancer Care in South Carolina
Next Day Access for
G.I. cancer patients
Hollings implemented a next-day access program for
patients newly diagnosed with non-metastatic stomach
cancer, small intestine cancer and hepato-pancreato-biliary
(HPB) cancers, like liver cancer and pancreatic cancer.
The goal? Enable people to see the clinical team and start
treatment as quickly as possible.
To achieve this, surgeon Kevin Roggin, M.D., tore apart
the existing clinic schedule. By looking at it from a patient’s
perspective, instead of the department perspective, he could
reimagine the schedule to ensure that an HPB surgeon and
advanced practice provider would be available every day.
And he installed one of the most experienced nurses on the
dedicated phone line so that callers would immediately be
speaking with a knowledgeable care team member.
Since its inception, 60% of callers to the dedicated NDA
line have been able to make an appointment within 48 hours
of the call, speeding access to our expert surgeons.
Dedicated outpatient
bone marrow
transplant clinic
The new outpatient Robert K. Stuart, M.D., Blood and
Marrow Transplant Center in Ashley River Tower on MUSC’s
peninsular Charleston campus includes 16 infusion chairs,
including an open day room; semi-private rooms; private
rooms for patients with low white blood cells, which makes
it harder for them to fight infections; a blood draw area so
that patients can get lab work done on-site; and two negative
pressure rooms to care for patients with an airborne illness.
The Blood and Marrow Transplant Program is the only
FACT-accredited combined adult and pediatric BMT
program in South Carolina, and the program has performed
more than 3,000 transplants.
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MUSC Hollings Cancer Center
