ORISE Facility Transferred to DOE/Methodist Medical Center
The 140 E. Vance Road facility was transferred back to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in a ceremony on June 20, 2006, at Methodist Medical Center (MMC) in Oak Ridge, Tenn. DOE, in turn, donated the facility to MMC.
The facility was part of the original Oak Ridge Hospital. It dated back to when the city of Oak Ridge was behind fences. More recently, it housed offices, laboratories, and a computer center where the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) performed work in support of DOE.
In the 1940s, the Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies (ORINS), which later became Oak Ridge Associated Universities (which manages of ORISE for DOE), oversaw the 30-bed hospital—one of three cancer research hospitals in the nation at the time.
The facility served our nation well. Millions of patients have benefited from the nuclear and radiation medicine research that took place there. The ground-breaking research has significantly advanced cancer treatment in this country. With this transfer, MMC can use the land to further their efforts to provide quality healthcare to the community.
The full news release about the transfer is available on DOE's Oak Ridge Office Web site.
For an interesting look at the history of this facility, view this presentation (6.8 MB PDF).
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