Sinai Hospital in northwest Baltimore has cut the ribbon on the Mandy & Dennis Weinman Cancer Building, a three-story, 125,000-square-foot outpatient center with a $95 million price tag that pulls adult and pediatric cancer care into one spot on the hospital campus. The Tuesday dedication came complete with a gong-ringing ceremony and a community open house, with hospital leaders highlighting patient-friendly touches like floor-to-ceiling natural light, an on-site art collection and a child-focused “Infusionarium.”
Centralized care and timeline
Teams from Sinai’s Alvin & Lois Lapidus Cancer Institute are slated to begin seeing patients in the Weinman Building on July 10, following the June 30 dedication, according to LifeBridge Health. The new facility is set up as a one-stop shop, with infusion services, radiation therapy, clinical research, and survivorship programs all sharing the same roof to keep appointments and specialists in closer reach.
How the building came together
Construction on the 125,000-square-foot project kicked off in 2023, and the $95 million cost has drawn local attention, as reported by the Baltimore Business Journal. Whiting-Turner is the general contractor on the job and lists the Weinman Building in its in-progress portfolio, marking it as one of the more notable health care builds in the region.
Patient-centered design
The Weinman Building is intentionally styled to feel less like a typical hospital. An infusion "living room," private bays that look out over Cylburn Arboretum, and dedicated family areas were all built to take some of the edge off long treatment days, WMAR noted. Clinicians say that by pulling infusion and radiation into a single location, patients who once had to trek across campus between appointments should see their walk times and logistical headaches shrink.
Care, trials and treatment
The adult infusion area in the Weinman Building includes 32 bays and 16 exam rooms, while the pediatric clinic offers seven infusion bays and seven exam rooms. The project also features renovated radiation suites, according to LifeBridge Health. The health system says the building will serve as a hub for clinical research, with dozens of existing adult and pediatric trials at Sinai now coordinated out of the new space.
Funding and donors
The center bears the Weinman name after a $5 million gift from Mandy and Dennis Weinman. The health system has continued to raise money for the project, and The Daily Record reported that LifeBridge was seeking an additional $15 million in philanthropic support. Hospital officials have also pointed to public grants and institutional dollars as part of the broader capital plan backing the cancer center and related projects.
What this means for Baltimore
Sinai’s cancer program treats roughly 30,000 patients a year, and hospital leaders say the Weinman Building should streamline care and open up local access to more trials and specialty services, WMAR reported. The opening lands at a moment of transition for the hospital’s leadership; Sinai Hospital president Amy Shlossman will depart this summer.
For patients and families, the Weinman Building is designed as a concentrated hub of outpatient cancer care within the Sinai campus, a shift the hospital says will cut friction between appointments and pack more services into a single location. Hospital leaders add that combining multiple services in one building should make multi-step treatment days less of a logistical obstacle course for both patients and caregivers.
