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As pediatric patients looked out the window of Dana-Farber’s Jimmy Fund Clinic last Thursday, they saw their names being spray-painted onto beams forming the shell of the Yawkey Center for Cancer Care, the state-of-the-art outpatient care and clinical research facility under construction on Jimmy Fund Way. John O’Connor of the Boston Iron Workers Union Local 7 leaned off a ladder three floors up to inscribe the first names of children currently in treatment. Many more names will join them as the center grows to its height of 14 stories.
The Yawkey Center, slated to open in 2011, will house many of Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center adult clinical services, as well as translational research space and patient and family services. The 275,000 square-foot, environmentally-friendly building will include 102 exam rooms and 153 infusion beds.
For more information on the Yawkey Center, including a video of construction workers spray-painting children’s names on the beams, visit www.dana-farber.org/abo/news/press/2009/whats-in-a-name-for-patients-a-piece-of-history.html