Carson Tahoe Regional Healthcare Foundation

Programs: The award winning carson tahoe cancer resource center crc is open five days a week, offering all the services at no cost to clients. The crc works directly with the diagnosed patient and their families to educate them on the diagnosis, treatments and side effects of treatments. The crc has been providing outreach and assistance to cancer patients since february 2000. There are more than 350 visits to the crc annually for newly diagnosed cancer patients. Contributions are used for expenses related to treatment, for cancer patients in need. The breast fund underwrites expenses for breast cancer patients who meet the financial criteria.

supported various services of carson tahoe regional healthcare through direct expenditures and grants for equipment and supplies.

the 15 unit merriner cottages provide temporary housing to medically underserved and underinsured cancer patients in the nevada counties of carson city, churchill, douglas, lyon, pershing, story and washoe. As well as the eastern portions of california counties of el dorado, placer and nevada. Carson tahoe serves a vast community of over 250,000 people, spread over a predominantly rural geographic area. On average, 55 of patients receiving care at the carson tahoe cancer center live outside carson city and more than 20 miles away. For many, the cost of travel and/or lodging would be a barrier to medical treatment, if they did not have this no-cost lodging option. The foundation underwrites the operating costs of the cottages annually, housing over 200 patients and their families each year. Treatment periods for patients qualified to stay in the cottages typically range from three to eight weeks. The estimated hard costs of an overnight stay in the cottages is 60, with an average stay costing 1,800 per patient.