The Norton Healthcare Brain Tumor Center is the region’s only comprehensive tumor center of its type. One location allows patients to schedule multiple appointments for the same day.
At the Norton Healthcare Brain Tumor Center, neurosurgeons, neuro-oncologists, radiation oncologists and more work side by side sharing ideas and collaborating on every patient’s care. A multidisciplinary team meets to review each case, allowing patients to get the benefit of multiple specialties. These meetings are like getting a third, fourth or fifth opinion built into your care.
Norton Cancer Institute – Brownsboro is a state-of-the-art facility designed for patient convenience and comfort.
- Streamlined registration and preregistration through the use of electronic registration and self-check-in kiosks
- Curved main corridors and strategic use of colors, textures and materials to facilitate wayfinding
- The combined use of natural daylight and 100% LED lighting to support a more natural, less clinical feel
- White noise and music in key locations, along with special ceiling tiles and recycled denim insulation to dampen noise and enhance acoustics
- Improved efficiency through the use of collaborative care “team rooms” and infusion rooms designed as pods around centrally located nursing stations
- Amenities such as personal technology charging stations, wireless internet access, a meditation room, Healing Garden and bistro
Norton Cancer Institute – Brownsboro was made possible by generous donors to the Norton Healthcare Foundation.
Your Visit
Insurance
The companies, insurance carriers and government organizations listed below have contracts with all Norton Healthcare facilities, employed providers and practices.
For questions regarding a bill from Norton Healthcare or Norton Children’s, call customer service at (502) 479-6300 or (800) 874-3979.
- Aetna
- Aetna Better Health
- Aetna Medicare Advantage
- Ambetter from MHS
- Ambetter from WellCare of Kentucky
- Anthem
- Anthem Indiana Medicaid
- Anthem MediBlue HMO/PPO
- Anthem Pathway
- Anthem Pathway Transition
- CareSource Indiana Medicaid
- CareSource Marketplace Kentucky and Indiana
- Cigna
- CorVel
- Coventry
- Encore
- Essence
- First Health Group Corp. (First Health)
- UofL Health – Frazier Rehabilitation Institute
- HealthSmart
- Hosparus
- Humana Medicare
- Humana Medicaid
- Indiana Medicaid
- Indiana Medicare
- Indiana Health Network
- Kentucky Medicaid
- Kentucky Medicare
- MDwise
- MHS
- Molina Healthcare
- MultiPlan
- Passport Health Plan Kentucky MCO
- Passport Marketplace
- Provider Net/OMCA
- Sagamore
- Signature Advantage
- SIHO
- TRICARE Humana Military
- United Healthcare
- United Healthcare Community Plan Indiana and Kentucky
- United Healthcare Medicare Advantage
- Veterans Affairs (VA)
- WellCare
- WellCare of Kentucky Medicaid (Kentucky MCO)
- WellCare Medicare
- Wellpath
- Workers’ Compensation
Getting There
The Norton Healthcare Brain Tumor Center is located on the second floor of Norton Cancer Institute – Brownsboro on the campus of Norton Brownsboro Hospital. Patients can be dropped off at the door, with surface parking available at the building.
TARC Routes 25 and 74 stop nearby.
Norton Cancer Institute Classes and Events
Norton Cancer Institute Resource Centers offer classes to support cancer and tumor patients and their families.
When You Choose the Norton Healthcare Brain Tumor Center
- A patient navigator dedicated to brain tumor patients and their families acts as a patient advocate through diagnosis, treatment and beyond.
- Our brain tumor board, using a multidisciplinary approach, ensures your case is carefully reviewed and benefits from the viewpoints of specialists from a broad array of expertise, experience and training.
- If you would like to confirm your diagnosis and treatment plan, consider getting a second opinion from the Norton Healthcare Brain Tumor Center.
- Our specialists are skilled and experienced with brain tumor radiation therapy, neurological surgery, brain tumor chemotherapy, brain tumor treating fields, immunotherapy, stereotactic radiosurgery, intensity-modulated radiation therapy, laser interstitial thermal therapy with robotic assistance and emerging treatments.
- These specialists work side by side, allowing you to schedule multiple appointments for the same day, in the same location.
- Counselors provide compassionate, friendly guidance to patients whose finances have been upended by their diagnosis.
- From minimally invasive robotics to the latest in immunology and clinical trials, sophisticated treatments can precisely reduce or eliminate brain and spinal tumors while protecting healthy tissue.
- Norton Children’s Cancer Institute, affiliated with the UofL School of Medicine, provides specialized care for pediatric brain tumors.
- Medicare, Medicaid and most major commercial insurance plans are accepted.
- Communicate with your provider, manage appointments, refill prescriptions and get alerted when earlier appointments become available with your free Norton MyChart account.
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