Sloan Kettering to neighbor Nassau Coliseum

A state-of-the-art Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is set to open in late 2019 on the southwest lawn of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum site in Uniondale.  The hospital purchased the property late last month.

“It’s long been a desire of ours to operate a freestanding outpatient treatment center in Nassau County,” said Sloan Kettering spokesperson Courtney DeNicola Nowak. “This new site will give us ample space to grow our clinical programs and expand ancillary support services, which will further reduce the need for our patients to travel to MSK in Manhattan.”

Sloan Kettering opened a Rockville Centre site in 1996. Once the new site is ready for outpatient cancer care, the Rockville Centre location will close and transfer its patients and staff to the new Uniondale location. The center also has two locations in Suffolk, Manhattan and Brooklyn.

“This outpatient treatment facility will offer critical cancer care to patients without the wear and tear of traveling to Manhattan,” said Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano. “This is great news for residents diagnosed with cancer and for those seeking employment in the health care industry.”

Nowak said the new site will be a two-story, 114,000 square-foot facility with an adjacent parking garage. The center also purchased another 25,000 square-feet for possible future expansion. 

She said it will include surgical, medical, and radiation oncology consultations, chemotherapy, radiation therapy and diagnostic radiology. The center will also offer clinical research trials, pain management support, social work services, genetic counseling and even nutritional counseling. 

“Planning is also underway for three state-of-the-art linear accelerators used to map and deliver intensity-modulated and image-guided radiation therapy,” Nowak said. A tool, she said, that will help many patients in numerous ways. 

Nowak said there will most likely be “some level of recruitment, a mix of clinical and administrative/professional positions” detailed on careers.mskcc.org.