Greenroofs.com Projects - Orlando Health MD Anderson Cancer Center Labyrinth Vegetated Roof Garden

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The MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando is the first and largest affiliate of the world-renowned University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center located in Houston, Texas. A common multidisciplinary team at MD Anderson - Orlando includes board-certified surgeons, medical and radiation oncologists, pathologists, radiologists, nurses, therapists and counselors. As technologically advanced cancer treatment grew in Central Florida, the softer side of medicine came of age. In the early 1990s, MD Anderson - Orlando added a chaplain devoted to caring for patients and their families in the hospital. This service was soon expanded to include outpatients. Programs such as high tea, spiritual bibilotherapy, palliative care and a labyrinth were incorporated to soothe the mind, body and soul . Modeled after the labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral near Paris, France, the labyrinth here is locat...

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