Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Newsletters October 25, 2019

No. 449: Braving the rebrand, locking down opioids and building a better Manufacturers’ Symposium

Almost there: You’ve made it this far, dear readers, and congratulations for that, as we wind down another busy workweek and look ahead to another well-earned autumnal weekend. Shoe ins: It’s Oct. 25 on Long Island and around the world, and before we dive in, welcome aboard new newsletter subscribers Judy, Michael, Wayne, Lee, Lloyd, Gordon, Holly, Maryellen, Raymond, Sai, Richard, Stephen, Eric and Tim. If any of you had Crispin and Crispian, the…

Newsletters April 5, 2019

No. 394: On cancer centers, secure weed and Asian affairs (plus: naughty books in Huntington)

Don’t know how you do it: But you’ve done it again, dear reader – it’s Friday and you’re sprinting toward the finish line of another busy workweek, with another well-earned weekend in the offing. Nicely done. It’s April 5 out there, and if you had Alexander Nevsky’s Russian forces turning back the Teutonic Knights in the Battle on the Ice on this date in 1242, pozdravlyayu! The state gratefully collects 200 rubles on your…

Health April 4, 2019

Memorial Sloan Kettering debuts new MSK Nassau

By GREGORY ZELLER // A new chapter in Long Island’s fight against cancer is beginning, even as the book closes on a longtime regional treatment facility. New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Thursday cut the ribbon of MSK Nassau, an ultramodern, $180 million outpatient cancer-treatment facility located on Hempstead Turnpike in Uniondale. Slated to officially open for business Monday, the 2-story, 114,000-square-foot center replaces MSK’s 22-year-old Rockville Centre facility, which is shutting…

Health February 15, 2018

Northwell taps MSK veteran to head cancer programs

By GREGORY ZELLER // After a three-decade career at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, an internationally renowned surgeon will take the reins of Northwell Health’s vast network of cancer services and research. Following a national search and recruitment effort, the New Hyde Park-based health system has appointed Richard Barakat physician-in-chief and director of the Northwell Health Cancer Institute and senior vice president of Northwell’s Cancer Service Line. Barakat, who also becomes a professor of…

Health February 8, 2018

Northwell, Connecticut health network buddy up

By GREGORY ZELLER // The Empire State’s busiest healthcare provider has established a new foothold in the Constitution State. New Hyde Park-based Northwell Health – New York’s biggest healthcare network by number of patients and number of providers, as well as the state’s largest private employer – has inked a “collaboration agreement” with the Western Connecticut Health Network, a patient-centered healthcare organization with hospitals in Danbury, New Milford and Norwalk. The partnership, announced Thursday, is…

Health October 19, 2017

In Uniondale, Memorial Sloan Kettering is beaming

By GREGORY ZELLER // A leading cancer-research and treatment institution is making headway in the significant expansion of its Long Island footprint. The New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center – which already maintains treatment facilities in Rockville Centre, Commack and Hauppauge – trumpeted Thursday the coming of its new 114,000-square-foot cancer-treatment center in Uniondale, adjacent to NYCB Live, the new moniker of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Construction of the freestanding, $140 million…