Hope Lodge Coming to Twin Cities

“Groundbreaking for American Cancer Society Hope Lodge
in Twin Cities Set for Sept. 14

Groundbreaking is set for Thursday, Sept. 14, at the future site of the first American Cancer Society Hope Lodge in the Twin Cities. Former Hope Lodge guest and Woodbury resident Dick Olender will join a representative of The Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation, American Cancer Society Midwest Division CEO Jari Johnston-Allen, and Dr. John Kersey from the University of Minnesota to break ground on the new Hope Lodge.

The 40-room Hope Lodge will be constructed on land provided by the University of Minnesota Cancer Center, near the east edge of the University of Minnesota campus. The American Cancer Society, in partnership with the University of Minnesota Cancer Center and the University of Minnesota Medical Center, will open the facility to cancer patients in 2007. Hope Lodge guests will be referred to the facility from cancer centers throughout the Twin Cities.

When construction on the Twin Cities facility is complete, Minnesota will be home of two Hope Lodges. The American Cancer Society Hope Lodge in Rochester, which opened in the 1999 and has since accommodated nearly 2,000 cancer patients who received treatment at Mayo Clinic, is currently expanding from its original 28 rooms to 60 rooms. That expansion project is slated for completion in early 2007."

--From American Cancer Society's Employee Newsletter