Infusion & Chemotherapy
Outpatient Infusion Therapy
Helen Newberry Joy Hospital & Healthcare Center provides both Chemotherapy and Infusion Therapy to patients in need of treatment. Our experienced Registered Nurses, certified by the Oncology Nursing Society, are specially trained to provide a wide variety of intravenous infusion therapies on an outpatient basis.
Infusion therapy the administration of medication through a needle or catheter. It is usually prescribed when a patient’s condition is so severe that it cannot be treated effectively by oral medications. Typically, “infusion therapy” means that a drug is administered intravenously, but the term may also refer to situations where drugs are provided through other non-oral routes, such as intramuscular injections.
Prescription drug therapies commonly administered via infusion include antibiotic, antifungal, antiviral, chemotherapy, and hydration.
COnditions Treated
Diseases commonly requiring infusion therapy include:
- Infections unresponsive to oral antibiotics
- Cancer and cancer-related pain
- Dehydration
- Gastrointestinal diseases or disorders preventing normal gastrointestinal functioning
- Congestive heart failure
- Osteoporosis
- Crohn’s Disease
- Immune deficiencies
- Multiple sclerosis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
- Gitelman’s Syndrome
- Idiopathic thrombocytopenia (ITP)
- Other severe conditions
- Rabies vaccine
Services Offered
Our outpatient infusion therapy services include, but are not limited to:
- Access device maintenance
- Saline locks
- PICC lines
- Medi-ports
- Lab draw
- Allergy injections
- Antibiotic infusions
- Blood and blood product transfusions
- Chemotherapy
- Intravenous, injections, and bladder instillation
- Cosyntropin Stimulation test
- Electrolyte replacement therapy (Magnesium Sulfate, Potassium, Calcium)
- Foley catheter insertion for bladder irrigation, medication instillation
- Intravenous hydration
- Intravenous immunoglobulin
- Intravenous Iron infusions
- Therapeutic phlebotomy
Contact
Information
If you have questions about a specific treatment, would like to arrange treatment, or need additional information, please contact your PCP for information or call our office.
Hours
Weekdays: 8:30am – 4:00pm
Special arrangements can be made for weekends and after hours as needed
Department Location
First floor of the Hospital
Contact Us
Phone: 906.293.9283