Home Away From Home
Cancer patient housing assistance featured on ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”
The Home Away from Home program offers lodging support to qualifying patients who travel from outside the Phoenix metro area for cancer care and treatment at Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center. Eight private, two-bedroom, two-bath homes are available for those with the longest length of stay, while others can stay in one of several partner hotels located near the Cancer Center. This lodging is free for those who qualify.
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“Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”
A new iteration of the award-winning show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” is set to return to ABC and stream next day on Hulu for the 2024-2025 season. This season, the show will feature construction of a beautiful, new wellness center in the Home Away from Home residential community at Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center in Gilbert, Ariz.
The show will feature its first-ever exclusive homebuilder, Taylor Morrison, who added an approximately 2,000 sq. ft. wellness center to the recently built community of homes in Gilbert, Ariz., where Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center patients and their care partners stay free of charge during the course of their treatment.
This episode will feature construction of the wellness center located in the heart of the community of homes built and donated by Taylor Morrison earlier this year in support of the Banner Health Foundation's Home Away From Home program. The 1,000 sq. ft, fully furnished homes equipped with private backyards are within walking distance of Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center at Banner Gateway Medical Center, eliminating the financial burden of travel and hotel stays for approximately 80 patients and their families each year so they can focus on recovery in a comfortable environment.
Since opening in June 2024, these thoughtfully designed homes built by Taylor Morrison are finished with organized spaces complimentary of Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin, co-founders of the global lifestyle brand “The Home Edit,” creating stress-free and memorable move-ins.
"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" is produced by Endemol Shine North America and Hello Sunshine in association with Walt Disney Television Alternative. Shyam Balsé serves as showrunner and executive producer along with executive producers Sharon Levy and Michael Heyerman from Endemol Shine North America; and Reese Witherspoon, Sara Rea and Cassie Lambert Scalettar from Hello Sunshine, and Molly Sims.
About the Home Away from Home program
Our goal is to build the Home Away from Home endowment fund to $3 million to provide enduring annual support to both operate and maintain the patient housing community and cover the cost of patients’ hotel stays.
While many patients can afford a short hotel stay, few are prepared to pay for long-term lodging, especially those whose treatment protocol requires weeks to months of daily therapy or close post-surgical monitoring. For many, affording a place to stay during treatment can mean the difference between receiving care or not. That spurred the creation of Banner MD Anderson's Home Away from Home program, which covers the cost of local stays at partner hotels for qualifying patients.
Led by a group of committed community leaders, the Home Away from Home fundraising campaign began in 2019 with the goal of supporting cancer patients whose treatment protocol spans 30 or more days and who lack local housing. This patient population includes those undergoing a stem-cell transplant who need to be within 30 minutes of the facility to qualify for their transplant and for post-operative monitoring, and blood cancer patients who receive daily treatment for weeks or months.
Thanks to charitable gifts from individuals, families, businesses, and foundations, including Leslie's, McCarthy Building Companies, Thunderbirds Charities and the American Cancer Society, the program now assists qualifying patients with all types of cancer where proximity to their care team is vitally important. Without this assistance, a patient can spend, on average, $5,500 in hotel stays—even with discounted rates offered by hotel partners.
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