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6A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2017 Center: Hospital expects to more than double its staff by the end of 2018 WORLD IN BRIEF Associated Press Trump asks Supreme Court to reinstate travel ban Continued from Page 1A WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to immediately reinstate its ban on travel- ers from six mostly Muslim countries, saying the U.S. will be safer if the policy is put in place. The Justice Department fi ling to the high court late Thursday argued that the federal appeals court in Rich- mond, Virginia, made several mis- takes in ruling against the Trump travel policy. Immigration offi cials would have 90 days to decide what changes are necessary before people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen may resume applying for visas. It takes a majority of the court, at President least fi ve justices, to put the policy into Donald Trump effect. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called the national security concerns an after-the-fact justifi cation for a policy that was “rooted in religious animus and intended to bar Muslims from this country.” The appeals court ruled against reinstating the travel policy by a 10-3 vote last week. The Justice Department is “confi dent that President Trump’s executive order is well within his lawful author- ity to keep the nation safe and protect our communities from terrorism,” spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said. “The presi- dent is not required to admit people from countries that spon- sor or shelter terrorism, until he determines that they can be properly vetted and do not pose a security risk to the United States.” $8.2 billion education proposal moves forward in Legislature SALEM — An $8.2 billion proposal to fund Oregon’s K-12 education system cleared its fi rst hurdle in Salem on Thursday — the biggest school budget to-date and the state’s single-largest obligation for the 2017-19 budget. The funding fi gure represents the state’s share of the K-12 budget, known as the State School Fund, the biggest source of school district funding that comes directly from state house- hold, business and property taxes. As lawmakers are in a gridlock over how to close an upcoming $1.4 billion shortfall that jeopardizes health care for 350,000 Medicaid expansion recipients, this week’s edu- cation funding proposal is a 9 percent overall jump, or a $830 million increase, from the current budget schools are working with today, although the fi nal numbers are subject to change. Still, some of the state’s 197 school districts say they need at least another $200 million to avoid teacher layoffs and other cuts. Even then, educators say Oregon schools are still under- funded by about $2 billion per biennium — a fi gure derived from the so-called Quality Education Model, or QEM, which is the state’s metric for determining what’s “adequate and equitable” school funding. particle accelerator from Swedish radiotherapy equip- ment manufacturer Elekta used at the Knight Cancer Insti- tute. The accelerator directs a beam of radiation at a patient’s tumor during treatment to irra- diate cancerous tumors. “It has to be perfectly level,” Laman said. “The machine has to know the beam is going exactly to the right spot.” The walls of the chamber around the accelerator are 3 1/2 -feet thick on the bottom and sides, and 7 1/2 -feet thick on top. Keeping the concrete and the 28,000-pound accel- erator level are 280 aggregate stone piers dug into the ground underneath. The linear accelerator, being shipped across the Atlan- tic Ocean, through the Panama Canal and up to Los Angeles, will then be trucked up the West Coast in boxes, deliv- ered to the building in early July to be assembled, installed, tested and certifi ed over a 2 1/2 -month period. Laman said the accelerator will likely be ready for use in early Octo- ber, shortly before the build- ing’s expected grand opening Oct. 12. Parts of the center will open to patients in September. Infusion center In 2008, Sangkun “Sonny” Park reached out about bring- ing cancer treatment services to Astoria. In 2010, the hos- pital partnered with OHSU to create a cancer care clinic, tem- porarily in the CMH Health & Wellness Pavilion. After a $300,000 grant from the Asto- ria Development Commis- sion for renovations, the can- cer center moved into the Park Medical Building, where it provides 2,500 infusion and chemotherapy visits per year, expected to increase to 3,000 at the new center. Patients receiving infusions will face a bank of windows on Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian Work continues on the Knight Cancer Collaborative, including walls of concrete up to 7 1/2 feet thick. Stone piers will keep the concrete and 28,000-pound accelerator level. the second fl oor with expan- sive views of the Columbia River. But some infusions can last six to seven hours, Laman said, meaning the hospital needed chairs that patients would like to be in for long periods. The hospital had gen- eral contractor P&C Construc- tion build a mock-up of the infusion center in Fort George Brewery’s Lovell Showroom and invited three chair ven- dors to bring their models to be tested and voted on by patients, staff and others from the community . Support services “Over the last few years, there’s been more and more research showing that it’s not just the chemotherapy or the radiation that really gets the patient through this process,” Laman said. “It’s sort of a mul- tidisciplinary team that takes care of the patient.” In addition to exam, pos- itron emission tomography and CT scanning on the fi rst fl oor, the hospital will pro- vide a fi nancial planner to take patients through the fi nancing of cancer treatment. The hos- pital will also offer support groups and counselors; beau- ticians to help with cosmetics, shaving and hair care during treatment; a yoga instructor; a massage therapist, acupunc- turist and a naturopath to help deal with side affects of treat- ment naturally; and a patient resource center for wigs, prosthetics and other prod- ucts for people going through treatment. The hospital expects to more than double its staff from 17 now to 37 by the end of 2018 at the new build- ing. OHSU, which provides the region’s only oncologist for diagnoses and prescrib- ing treatment, will provide an additional medical oncolo- gist and a radiation oncologist, opening more appointments for patients. OHSU will also link the local doctors with fur- ther support and expertise of specialists in Portland. Local touch In addition to using local subcontractors under general contractor P&C Construction, the hospital has worked with 17 local artists on art instal- lations throughout the build- ing, including a mosaic and sculptures by ceramicist Rich- ard Rowland and handmade paper lighting features by HiiH Lights. The hospital is using more than $13 million in bonds to pay for the project. And in Jan- uary, the CMH Foundation completed a fundraising cam- paign of more than $3 mil- lion from local and regional donors. “So many people have worked together to bring radi- ation therapy to the commu- nity and to build this state - of -the -art cancer treatment center,” the hospital’s CEO Erik Thorsen said. “This has been one of the greatest com- munity -supported projects that I have witnessed in my career. 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