Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Main entrance on York Avenue
Geography
Location	1275 York Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
Coordinates	40°45′51″N 73°57′25″W / 40.764096°N 73.956842°W / 40.764096; -73.956842
Organisation
Funding	Non-profit hospital
Type	Specialist
Services
Emergency department	Urgent care center
Beds	498 (as of 2018)
Speciality	Oncology
History
Former name(s)	New York Cancer Hospital
Opened	1884; 140 years ago (1884)[1] (as New York Cancer Hospital)
Links
Website	www.mskcc.org
Lists	Hospitals in U.S.
Other links	Hospitals in Manhattan

History

A radium laboratory at Memorial Hospital, 1918

Memorial Hospital, 1930

Rockefeller's York Avenue land donation, 1937

The relocated Memorial Hospital building, built between 1936 and 1939, standing on its present location on York Avenue

Groundbreaking at the Sloan Kettering Institute, 1946

The original New York Cancer Hospital^[2] built between 1884 and 1886, now housing, at 455 Central Park West and 106th Street in Manhattan

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK or MSKCC) is a cancer treatment and research institution in Manhattan in New York City. MSKCC is one of 72 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers.^[3][4] Its main campus is located at 1275 York Avenue between 67th and 68th Streets in Manhattan.

It was formed in 1980 from the merger of the Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases, founded in 1884, and the adjacent Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, founded in 1945. The two medical entities had formally coordinated their operations since 1960.

In U.S. News & World Report's 2021–2022 Best Hospitals, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) is ranked the second-best hospital for cancer care in the nation after MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.^[5]