When you live in a major city or near a prestigious medical center, you often have access to cutting-edge medical technology. But what happens when you reside in a rural community, thousands of miles from the nearest specialized care provider?
Finance solutions for life-changing healthcare technology
行业 HealthcareTreating cancer patients in rural Alaska
This was a problem facing Richard Chung, MD and his associates at the Anchorage Radiation Therapy Center (ARTC). As in Anchorage, Alaska, a city that lies some 2,500 miles above the continental US. Unwilling to accept geography as an excuse, the center found a way to use a finance solution to bring a life-changing precision surgical tool to cancer patients in remote Alaska.
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Before we brought this technology to Anchorage, Alaskans had to travel to the continental US for treatment. Now they are in and out of the center in a single day."
Whether you’re in a major city or a rural area, the best medical technology most often comes at a price."