Eighteen months ago, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center announced a plan to build a new freestanding location in Amherst, N.Y., that would extend convenient access to outstanding cancer care and services for patients in Buffalo’s northern suburbs. Today, the cancer center welcomed patients, cancer survivors and community members into that center — Roswell Park Scott Bieler Amherst Center — for the first time at a grand-opening event.

Some communities suffer disproportionately from the health effects of tobacco use, which causes 30% of all cancer deaths. But while most people who use tobacco want to quit — including growing numbers who want to quit vaping — many do not have access to effective treatment programs for tobacco and nicotine addiction in their communities.

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has once again been named to Forbes’ list of America’s Best Employers by State, based on an anonymous worker survey about workplace culture, benefits and inclusion.