{"id":86774,"date":"2025-11-13T12:41:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/?p=86774"},"modified":"2025-11-17T13:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:11:11","slug":"providing-cancer-care-rural-southern-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/providing-cancer-care-rural-southern-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: To help cancer patients in rural areas, this medical team does the driving, bringing treatments to people in their hometowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Providing Rural Health Care | Robert Hoyer, MD, Oncology | UCHealth\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Y0swj_u0dU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Every month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/provider\/robert-hoyer-md-hematology-and-oncology\/\">Dr. Robert Hoyer<\/a>, an oncologist with UCHealth in Colorado Springs, and his outreach team travel to Trinidad and Lamar, providing crucial oncology care to rural patients who would otherwise face long drives or, in some cases, go without treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The team consists of a nurse practitioner, a scheduler, and a medical assistant, and they spend one week in these communities, offering clinic visits as well as infusion and chemotherapy services at local hospitals. 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