MGH/North Shore center gearing up

X-rays, MRIs, and ultrasounds are among the diagnostic tests that will be offered when the center opens June 1.

Cardiology, breast health, and pediatrics specialties also will be offered. The North Shore Cancer Center, now at Centennial Park in Peabody, will relocate to the new facility.

The cancer center will have 24 rooms for chemotherapy treatment, three linear accelerators for radiation therapy, 13 exam rooms, a lab, and a pharmacy.

The center, located on the ground floor, will have its own entrance. A healing garden will overlook the Waters River.

"The goal is to create a feeling of peace," said Robert Norton, chief executive of North Shore Medical Center in Salem, which collaborated with Massachusetts General Hospital on the facility.

The outpatient center will have eight operating suites for day surgery.

No emergency services or overnight stays will be available at the center, which will be open on weekdays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

"Nobody will ever be pushed to the end of the line because of an emergency," Norton said during a tour of the facility.

"If your appointment is at 9 a.m., it will be at 9 a.m., not 'Wait until we get to you.' "

Wireless Internet access and a cafe with an outdoor patio will be available to patients and visitors. Flat-screen TVs will be tuned into NESN for Red Sox games.

"It was by special request that NESN be available throughout the center," Norton said.

A dozen physician practices plan to relocate, or open a second office, in an 80,000-square-foot office building attached to the center. Most will move in over the summer.

Elena Sierra, a former program director at Brigham and Women's Hospital, has been appointed director of the MGH/North Shore center.

About 200 doctors from North Shore Medical Center and Mass. General will work at the facility, in addition to about 200 other employees, including nurses, technicians, and administrative staff.

A ribbon-cutting to recognize major donors to a $20 million capital campaign was due to be held last Thursday.

Four $1 million gifts came with naming rights. Cardiology services will be named for Leonard and Penny Axelrod of Peabody.

Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation's donation named the main lobby for Stanley Lukowski, the bank's retired chief executive.

A gift from the Arthur J. and Eunice Epstein Philanthropic Fund will name the day surgery lobby for Arthur Epstein of Marblehead.

The breast health center is funded by a gift from the Morton and Lillian Waldfogel Charitable Foundation.

The couple's son, Peter Waldfogel, lives in Swampscott.

And a hole in one.

Barbara Yozell, a Marblehead realtor, hit it big on a recent round at Beverly Golf & Tennis Club. Yozell, an amateur who was active in the Women's Golf Association of Massachusetts, got her first-ever hole in one.

"It was windy," said Yozell, a former club champion, who has played at Beverly for 38 years. "I was tired, and I was feeling guilty because I should have been at work. And then I just went out and did it."

"I had to hit it over a bunker," she said of the flat par-three. "The ball landed on the green. It just slid into the hole. And everyone all over the course just started screaming and yelling."

So did she buy a lottery ticket filled with sixes?

"I did, but I didn't win," Yozell said, laughing. "At least one day I can meet my maker and say, 'I got a hole in one.' "

Kathy McCabe can be reached at kmccabe@globe.com.