Texas Tech Health El Paso breaks ground on Fox Cancer Center
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso celebrated the groundbreaking of the Fox Cancer Center, El Paso's first comprehensive cancer center.
Texas Tech Health El Paso, along with its hospital partner University Medical Center of El Paso, describes the new facility as "transformative" for the Borderplex region.
The new cancer center is being built near the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine on the Texas Tech Health El Paso campus. Once built, the Fox Cancer Center will be the largest cancer and specialty care building project in the Texas Tech University System's history. The building is expected to be 350,000 square feet.
University, community, health leaders and cancer patients attended the groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday morning.
School officials also announced a $50 million fundraising campaign for specialized equipment and capital construction, titled "Building Hope."
The campaign had already raised $30 million for the project prior to today, thanks to a $25 million donation from Steve and Nancy Fox, whose name will be on the facility, and a $5 million contribution from the Paso del Norte Health Foundation.
Joshua Hunt, President of the Woody and Gayle Hunt Family Foundation, pledged an additional $5 million to the campaign, bringing the total to $35 million as of Wednesday.
"The Fox Cancer Center will be the first comprehensive cancer center to serve our West Texas region," a school spokesperson explained. "Once completed, the center will bring together cancer imaging, treatment, research, clinical trials and preventive outreach programs under one roof."
