Facilities

The IU Simon Cancer Center is located on the 80-acre Indianapolis campus of the Indiana University School of Medicine. All facilities on the campus are within close proximity to each other. The office, laboratory and patient care space used by the physician and research members of the IU Simon Cancer Center are housed in five patient care and five research facilities on campus. New construction is planned for both types of facilities.

Patient Care

One major facility is devoted solely to the comprehensive care of adult cancer patients. The Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center is a new adult cancer care facility located adjacent and attached to IU Hospital. The new facility will house 80 treatment beds, new operating rooms, diagnostic radiology, expanded radiation oncology, new outpatient clinics, and a new patient and family resource area.

Additional patient care may occur at one of five additional hospitals and clinics, two of which -- Indiana University Hospital and Riley Hospital for Children -- are part of Clarian Health.

  • Indiana Cancer Pavilion (right) for outpatient care is an 89,000-square-foot building located next to Indiana University Hospital.
  • Indiana University Hospital provides adult inpatient services and research support to the IU Simon Cancer Center.
  • Riley Hospital for Children, a specialty referral center for infants, children and adolescents, is located about a half block north of the Indiana Cancer Pavilion. Riley is one of the 15 largest children's hospitals in the nation, caring for more than 57,000 patients a year.
  • Richard L. Roudebush Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC) is a tertiary care facility serving Indiana veterans. It provides acute inpatient medical, surgical, psychiatric, neurological, and rehabilitation care, as well as both primary and specialized outpatient services. IU Simon Cancer Center physicians provide cancer care at this medical center affiliated with the IU School of Medicine.
  • Wishard Health Services is a community health system with a special emphasis on vulnerable populations in Marion County/Indianapolis. The IU Simon Cancer Center provides cancer care at this hospital affiliated with the IU School of Medicine.

Planned new construction will expand the amount of space devoted to cancer patient care on the IU School of Medicine campus.

  • An addition to Riley Hospital for Children will expand space devoted to inpatient and outpatient cancer care and bone marrow transplantation.

Research

One major facility is devoted solely to cancer research.

  • Indiana University Cancer Research Institute (right) is a 100,000-square-foot building about a half block north of the Indiana Cancer Pavilion and just east of Riley Hospital for Children. It houses the laboratories of many IU Simon Cancer Center members, a 100-seat lecture hall for educational programs and the shared facilities of Flow Cytometry, Transplant and Xenograft Mouse and Vector Production.

Four additional facilities house the offices and laboratories of the IU Simon Cancer Center members and other activities related to cancer research.

Planned new construction will expand the amount of space devoted to cancer research on the IU School of Medicine campus.

  • Research III will add about 125,000 square feet of cancer research space, about half of the building’s total size. It is scheduled for completion in 2008 and will be located between the Cancer Research Institute and Research II.
  • Expansion and renovation of the Van Nuys Medical Science Building will enlarge and improve laboratory space of IU Simon Cancer Center members.