“We want to thank the community for contributing more than $28 million to build the new 25,000-square-foot Johnson Pavilion, which houses the cancer center on one floor and the hospital’s new surgery suites below it,” said Terry Newmyer, president/CEO, St. Helena Hospital.

Tours will be provided with refreshments, music and the opportunity to meet the physicians and staff who work in the cancer center and surgery department.

The St. Helena Hospital Foundation raised $28.2 million to fund the hospital’s new building and the first outpatient cancer center in the UpValley. Among the contributions was $3 million from St. Helena residents and vintners Stephen Martin and Dennis O’Neil whom the cancer center was named after.

The Martin-O’Neil Cancer Center will provide outpatient cancer treatments, including three types of oncology, in one convenient location. The center has a $2.8-million Varian linear accelerator found in only a handful of the nation’s top cancer centers – that provides radiation treatment using advanced technology that shapes radiation beams with pinpoint accuracy to target tumor cells and spare healthy surrounding tissue.