ST HELENA – The public is invited to an open house celebration for the new Martin-O’Neil Cancer Center and Johnson Pavilion building at St. Helena Hospital on Sunday, Nov. 22, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

“We want to thank the community for contributing more than $28 million to build the new 25,000-square-foot Johnson Pavilion, which houses the cancer center on one floor and the hospital’s new surgery suites below it,” said Terry Newmyer, president/CEO, St. Helena Hospital.

Tours will be provided with refreshments, music and the opportunity to meet the physicians and staff who work in the cancer center and surgery department.

The Martin-O’Neil Cancer Center will provide outpatient cancer treatments to patients in the North Bay region, including three types of oncology, in one convenient location.

The center has a $2.8-million Varian linear accelerator – found in only a handful of the nation’s

top cancer centers – that provides radiation treatment using advanced technology that shapes radiation beams with pinpoint accuracy to target tumor cells and spare healthy surrounding tissue.

The St. Helena Hospital Foundation raised $28.2 million to fund the hospital’s new building, including the first outpatient cancer center in the upper Napa Valley.

Among the contributions was $3 million from St. Helena residents and vintners Stephen Martin and Dennis O’Neil whom the cancer center was named after.