Jihlava Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Centre – KOC

The Comprehensive Cancer Centre (KOC) is a unique systemic element of healthcare that acts as the integrating and coordinating hub of cancer care across the entire region. It works like a “sun” around which all other healthcare facilities in the region orbit. Its importance lies not only in providing highly specialised treatment, but above all in its ability to systematically link individual healthcare providers into a single functional whole.

The KOC is not merely a care provider, but the systemic coordinator of cancer care across the entire region.

1. Uniqueness for the PATIENT: “The highest quality within reach”

For the patient, the KOC is a guarantee of safety and assurance that their diagnosis and treatment take place in an environment with the highest level of expertise and technological facilities.

• Concentration of top-level know-how: KOC specialists have extensive experience with individual types of cancer, enabling precise diagnosis and optimisation of the treatment approach.

• Access to highly specialised treatment: Modern treatment methods (e.g. robotic surgery or high-precision radiotherapy such as CyberKnife) are available exclusively within the KOC.

• Continuity of care: All steps of treatment – from diagnosis to follow-up – are coordinated within a single system.

2. Uniqueness for DOCTORS: “Professional growth and elite facilities”

For doctors, the KOC provides an environment that enables continuous professional development and work at the highest professional level.

• Multidisciplinary dialogue: Team decision-making is the standard, improving the quality of both indication and treatment.

• Access to the latest science: Doctors actively participate in clinical trials, international projects and professional conferences.

• Technological facilities: The KOC has state-of-the-art equipment enabling cutting-edge medicine.

3. Uniqueness for the REGION: “Methodologist and coordinator”

The KOC acts as a methodological and management centre that defines and guarantees standards of cancer care within the region.

• Standardisation of care: The KOC defines and guarantees binding standards of diagnosis and treatment.

• Consultation support: Healthcare providers in the region can draw on direct expert support.

• Efficient use of resources: Centralising expensive equipment and medicines ensures that they are used as efficiently as possible.

Measurable benefits (KPIs)

• Time from diagnosis to start of treatment

• Proportion of patients treated within the region

• Number of multidisciplinary team (MDT) indications

• Use of centre-based treatment

Risks in the absence of a KOC

• Fragmentation of care

• Patients leaving the region for treatment

• Weakened staffing stability

• Decline in quality and threat to accreditations

Conclusion

The KOC is a key pillar of the modern healthcare system. It ensures the availability of highly specialised care, the stability of regional healthcare and the efficient use of resources. Its role is irreplaceable not only from the patient's perspective, but also in terms of management and the long-term sustainability of the system.