Vail Health Shaw Cancer Center

Vail Health Shaw Cancer Center incorporates a multidisciplinary team approach in a state-of-the-art treatment facility and Jack’s Place, a cancer caring house. Generosity from people like you supports many critical areas at Shaw, including:

JACK’S PLACE

Jack’s Place provides a welcome respite at no cost for patients and their caregivers traveling to Shaw for treatment. The generous living areas include 12 beautifully decorated guest rooms, a spacious community kitchen, a living room, a dining room, a meditation studio, a yoga studio, a massage center, a library, and a tranquil garden.

RESEARCH AT SHAW 

Shaw Cancer Center and The Steadman Philippon Institute Center for Regenerative Medicine are collaborating on promising clinical studies investigating how a common blood pressure medication might reduce post-radiation fibrosis in breast and prostate cancer patients. 

SHAW AT HOME

Shaw at Home is an in-home, community-based palliative care program that supports the needs of cancer patients and their families in the Eagle River Valley. This program is designed to ensure our patients receive whole-person care throughout their cancer journey from a care team they have come to trust.

SPIRIT OF SURVIVAL

The Spirit of Survival program offers cancer patients and survivors fitness classes, physical therapy, emotional counseling, nutritional consults, alternative therapies, and other wellness services—all free of charge.

SHAW PATIENT ASSISTANCE FUND

Shaw Cancer Center’s Patient Assistance Fund can help patients and their families experiencing financial challenges with non-medical expenses, such as mortgage or rent payments, utility bills, car payments or repairs, groceries, etc. This short-term assistance helps ease the minds and hearts of our patients, allowing them to focus on what is most crucial—restoring their health and well-being.