The American Cancer Society is continuing a partnership with Extended Stay America’s “Keys of Hope” program for another two years. Through this collaboration, ESA will donate 100,000 free and discounted room nights to cancer patients and their caregivers whose treatments may take them far from home. The program began in 2013 and ESA has generously donated thousands of rooms across the country for the past two years.

The society owns and operates 31 Hope Lodge facilities in 22 states which also provide a free place to stay for cancer patients. However, the Hope Lodges quickly fill up and there is often a waiting list. Extended Stay America has over 632 properties in 120 communities in the U.S. and Canada – including the one in Scarborough. ESA’s guest rooms come equipped with a full kitchen and access to laundry facilities, making them more like home and more like the society’s Hope Lodges. The program is open to patients of all ages, including pediatric patients accompanied by a parent.

For more information about lodging programs, to book a hotel room, or to get help – anytime day or night – call the American Cancer Society at 800-227-2345 or visit www.cancer.org.