About Us
You’ve never seen this before
Cancer Retreat Centers is the manifestation of what our founders dreamed of during their own experiences with cancer.
The core concept is a patient-centered, integrative care experience and dynamic community fostered across a network of multiple, diverse locations. Retreats are separate from medical facilities and support healing, restoration, and wellness.
We bring everything together for patients and those who care for them, combining efforts and corralling services from the healthcare sector, municipalities, nonprofits, and corporate sponsors.
Each location feels like home.
As we grow, new CRC locations may be in urban or rural settings, and will provide free offerings from our Portfolio of Integrative Care that are scaled to the resources and capacity of each venue. Each location must be separate from but work in collaboration with a local health system that serves as Medical Partner within the geographic area.
Our Mission
To enhance the quality of life and improve health outcomes of patients diagnosed with cancer by providing a variety of evidence-based integrative therapies, wellness programs, psychosocial support, recreation, and education to cancer patients, their families, and caregivers, at no cost, both during and after treatment and throughout their lives.
Our Vision
To create a new model of integrative cancer care provided through a robust network of Cancer Retreat Centers in multiple and diverse locations, tailored to local communities but consistent in the quality of services and holistic experience our cancer patients, families, and caregivers consider an integral part of their health and healing.
Who we serve
We all need a support network.
Cancer Retreat Centers serves the general public and these key constituents:
Cancer patients in treatment, survivors of any age or stage, including previvors through palliative care
Families of all the above
Caregivers
Oncology health providers
“Blanton House is a place full of grace and free of judgment.”
Sarah Peavey
CRC’s Programs Assistant and Mindfulness Instructor