braVo! Financial Assistance

Fund Each year the Alvin & Lois Lapidus Cancer Institute diagnoses more than 2,000 new cases of cancer and has 25,000 outpatient visits. For some patients, the costs associated with treatment can be overwhelming. The braVo! Fund was established nearly four years ago to help patients in need obtain supplemental services that are not covered by insurance.

The fund covers such services as:

Breast prosthesis
Wigs
Massage therapy
Medications not covered by insurance
Cosmetic consults
Transportation to and from treatment
Utility bills

The Alvin & Lois Lapidus Cancer Institute

The Alvin & Lois Lapidus Cancer Institute offers one of the region's most sophisticated arrays of services for cancer patients, including the revolutionary CyberKnife®, which uses cruise missile technology to target tumors that are inoperable with traditional treatments. The institute's vision of multidisciplinary oncology care places the patient and family at the center of a coordinated set of services and specialists.

In addition, the institute actively participates in clinical research studies, providing patients with the most advanced treatment modalities available. Working together as a multidisciplinary team, the medical staff at the Alvin & Lois Lapidus Cancer Institute offers a wide variety of treatment options and supportive care in pain management and nutrition.

The Herman & Walter Samuelson Breast Care Center at Northwest Hospital

The Herman & Walter Samuelson Breast Care Center at Northwest Hospital has some of the most advanced technology for the evaluation of breast disease in the Baltimore area. In addition to state-of-the-art mammography and diagnostic breast ultrasound equipment, stereotactic biopsy helps physicians make an accurate diagnosis.

The Herman & Walter Samuelson Breast Care Center at Northwest Hospital is a certified Softer Mammogram Provider, a distinction awarded only to an elite group of health care facilities. The hospital offers every woman a free MammoPad®, an FDA-cleared foam cushion, which dramatically eases the discomfort many women feel when they get a mammogram.

LifeBridge Health

LifeBridge Health created the Alvin & Lois Lapidus Cancer Institute, the Herman & Walter Samuelson Breast Care Center, and all other services with patient-centered care in mind. Our team offers an advanced level of expertise unique among the area's community-based institutions.

At both Sinai Hospital and Northwest Hospital, two of LifeBridge Health's facilities, patients and their families find something rare: an institution large enough to offer leading-edge care, yet small enough to touch their individual lives.