TUPELO - With a new expanded office in Tupelo, Miss., the Hematology and Oncology Associates at BridgePoint hopes to reach out to the community of northern Mississippi to serve the needs of an increasing number of cancer patients in its rural neighborhoods.

The cancer center assists those who can't travel to Birmingham or Memphis. By making its practice convenient to patients between those areas, a greater amount of the public has access to quick and efficient treatment.

The new 70,000-square foot center - 50,000 of it currently open to patients and staff - has multiplied its space five times over. It's capable of serving 300 patients a day.

Ideally, the center would like to be a one-stop place where a patient with a suspected tumor can come in, be tested, be diagnosed and begin treatment within two days.

- Memphis Business Journal, December 14-20, 2007