Hope Lodge to open in Boston for cancer patients, families

E-mail|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Elizabeth Cooney October 21, 2008 06:28 PM

Cancer patients and their families traveling to Boston for treatment have a new place to stay.

The AstraZeneca Hope Lodge Center in Boston will officially open its doors at 125 South Huntington Ave. in the city's Jamaica Plain neighborhood next week and welcome patients the first week of November. The 28th Hope Lodge in the country established by the American Cancer Society, it offers a free, temporary home in the form of 40 suites and space for shared cooking and dining. Transportation to treatment is also free, as are counseling and other support services.

AstraZeneca, a drug manufacturer, contributed $7 million as a naming gift. A $27 million fund-raising campaign began with $2.5 million from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and $2 million each from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. The hospitals' support allowed the Cancer Society to buy the property.

There are two other Hope Lodges in New England: Worcester Hope Lodge, which opened in 1986, and Hope Lodge in Burlington, Vt., which opened in 1985.

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Elizabeth Cooney is a former health reporter for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, where she also was a business reporter and an editor. Earlier in her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and worked for Boston magazine.