Later this year, Grand Rapids, New York City, and Minneapolis will all open American Cancer Society Hope Lodge free housing centers for cancer victims, joining two others that opened earlier this year, a record expansion of the network founded by holocaust survivor Margot Freudenberg. Freudenberg turns 100 this year.
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ATLANTA, Aug. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Margot Freudenberg, a Holocaust survivor and founder of the American Cancer Society's Hope Lodge movement, will turn 100 this year. As she celebrates her centennial, the American Cancer Society is launching a record expansion of the system she created -- a network of free housing and support for out-of-town cancer patients and their caregivers while undergoing care.
Within the next two years, the number of Hope Lodges will increase to 34, with Hope Lodges set to open this fall in New York City and this winter in Twin Cities/Minneapolis and Grand Rapids, Mich.
The new Twin Cities Hope Lodge in Minneapolis will be a 22,000 square-foot facility with 40 patient rooms with private baths, and the facility in Grand Rapids will be a 30,000 square-foot facility with 20 patient rooms with private baths.
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