Mountain Region Network
CommonSpirit Cancer Care
The CommonSpirit Mountain Region Cancer Care Network encompasses facilities across Colorado, Kansas, and Utah. Providing screenings that can detect the earliest signs of cancer to innovative treatment options that offer superior outcomes, our team is dedicated to providing exceptional care in every phase of cancer.
Our cancer care follows our larger mission and commitment to the people we serve: we make the healing presence of God known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
| Cancers We Treat | Advanced Cancer Treatments |
| Cancer Support | Early Detection |
| Risk and Prevention | Clinical Trials and Research |
Our cancer care network is accredited by the Commission on Cancer as an Integrated Network Cancer Program. This accreditation ensures that our centers offer integrated and comprehensive cancer care services of the highest quality.
The Mountain Region also includes a multitude of other accreditations including the National Accreditation Program for Breast Cancer (NAPBC), the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer (NAPRC), National Quality Measures for Breast Cancer (NQMBC), American College of Radiology (ACR), and the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI).
We understand that caring for an individual with cancer requires complexities that other diseases do not. For this reason, we pride ourselves on supporting a multidisciplinary approach to the care we provide.
Each multidisciplinary team is unique to your disease, and may include a medical oncologist, radiation oncologist, specialty surgeon, nurse navigator, social worker, dietician and much more.
Support Services/Integrative Medicine
The following group of experts may assist your doctor in guiding you through personalized cancer treatment:
Dieticians
Oncology dietitians are experts at assisting cancer patients and their families meet their nutritional needs. Their knowledge helps promote healing and minimize side effects during cancer treatment.
Integrative therapy
This practice combines conventional Western medicine with evidence-based treatments that may include mind-body practices, lifestyle changes, dietary support, and much more.
Nurse navigation
Professional registered nurses help patients, families, and caregivers navigate through their individual cancer journey.
Social workers
Skilled professionals provide emotional, psychological, social, and practical support for our patients and their loved ones during and after their cancer treatment.
Support groups
These meetings are specifically designed to allow all those touched by cancer to find support among others going through similar experiences. Support groups may include general or disease-specific topics and caregiver encouragement.
CommonSpirit Health is a leading provider of cancer care. From diagnosis to treatment and survivorship, our cancer centers provide care and support throughout your cancer journey.
Meet the leaders guiding our mountain region cancer care network.
Jeffrey Albert, MD, MPH, serves CommonSpirit Health as Executive Medical Director of Oncology. In his role, Dr. Albert works to build CommonSpirit’s enterprise-wide cancer program from the ground up. As part of a team, he is committed to building, developing and implementing the CommonSpirit cancer care service line. Dr. Albert collaborates with peers, stakeholders and providers to create a destination program. Reporting to the Executive Medical Director of Oncology, he also works closely with physician executives, entity leaders and experts in the oncology field.
Prior to joining CommonSpirit, Dr. Albert served as the Physician Executive for the Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center program in Northern Colorado. He also maintained an active clinical practice. Dr. Albert was selected as a 2017 honoree for the Northern Colorado 40 Under Forty program, recognizing emerging leaders in the region. He has served in a national role on the Clinical Affairs and Quality Council for the American Society for Radiation Oncology, as well as that organization’s Measures Subcommittee.
Dr. Albert completed his internship and residency in radiation oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. During his training, in addition to receiving numerous honors and awards, he completed a Masters in Public Health with a focus in health care management at The University of Texas School of Public Health. He is a graduate of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
Dr. Albert has a passion for the outdoors and enjoys many activities in the mountains such as trail and ultrarunning, hiking, backpacking, camping, skiing, and snowshoeing. He enjoys spending time with his wife, Erin, and three young children: Parker (7), Caroline (5) and Owen (4).
Tim Osterholm, MPA, serves CommonSpirit Health as Network Oncology Administrator. In his role, Tim works with the Executive Medical Director of Oncology and other oncology leadership to advance CommonSpirit as a market leader for oncology services. He actively collaborates and builds trusted relationships across our ministry to bring our strategic vision to action in all areas of oncology, support the delivery of quality patient care, and support the achievement of regionally and nationally recognized programs.
Prior to joining CommonSpirit, Tim served as the executive vice president and chief operations officer of Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff, Neb. Tim earned his undergraduate degree in medical technology from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and his Master of Public Administration from the University of Nebraska Omaha. His is a certified executive coach by the Hudson Institute and a graduate of CHRISTUS Academy, Kaiser Institute Alembic Leadership Program, and Leadership Greater Little Rock.
Tim and his wife, Kerri, have two daughters, Samantha and Alyssa. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, golf, skiing and spending time with family and friends.
