SSM Health plans to expand facility

February 10, 2025

FOND DU LAC – Planning is underway to expand SSM Health’s 480 E. Division St. location in Fond du Lac. 

Shane Smith, SSM Health Fond du Lac Market president, said the expanded facility, which currently houses SSM Health Cancer Care services, will feature another 12,000 square feet, additional parking and welcome infusion and anticoagulation services.

“This exciting development comes as we continue to see significant growth in the need for our cancer care services,” Smith said. “By providing expanding services in an updated facility we will continue to provide exceptional cancer care and other vital services to our patients when and where they need them.”

To make sure the newly expanded facility meets the needs of patients now and into the future, he said SSM Health is seeking input from physicians, caregivers, patients and family members. This important step will help inform the facility’s design and construction.

Michael Jones, MD, a board-certified medical oncologist, said the project highlights “the importance of locally delivered cancer care by friends and neighbors during the difficult cancer journey.” 

“Comprehensive cancer treatment at one facility, with both medical and radiation oncology, along with ancillary care services within the same footprint, reduces the unnecessary time and travel patients and family spend,” Jones said. “Our goal: Locally delivered patient care will be enhanced by this expansion to the benefit of our community. We are grateful to the vision of SSM to continue our tradition of locally delivered health care.” 

Filip Troicki, an SSM Health Cancer Care board-certified radiation oncologist, said the expansion is necessary to continue providing the best care for cancer patients.

“While we continue to expand the vital services that we offer for our cancer patients and their families, our physical blueprint has remained the same since the building was built in 1994,” Troicki said. “We want to be able to offer more services under one roof, and the expansion will help us achieve this.”

These services, he said, include chemotherapy, radiation, nutritional services, social work, palliative care, acupuncture, massage, physical therapy and infusion services.

Over the course of many years, Smith said SSM Health has planned for a potential facility expansion at the Division Street location. 

That planning included the past purchase of three homes on Eastgate Place, he said, and as part of this project, those now vacant homes will be removed, though plans are underway to partner with the City of Fond du Lac Police and the City of Fond du Lac Fire/Rescue for their teams to use the vacant homes for training exercises.

Pending city approvals, Jones said construction could begin in summer 2025, with an anticipated completion as early as spring 2026.