Company Profile
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Company Overview
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) is an NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, and is recognized as one of the largest and most successful comprehensive cancer centers in the country, based on the availability of outstanding care-givers, “state of the art” facilities for cancer care, a commitment to excellence in training of professionals for oncology, and cutting-edge cancer research.
MSKCC is in a dynamic period of program expansion, with the opening of the new Evelyn H. Lauder Breast and Imaging Center (BAIC), the Center for Image Guided Intervention (CIGI) and two new regional sites. The Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (HOPP) is intended to provide a basis for translational basic research and the active recruitment of physician scientists to expand the research mission of the institution.
Company History
Founded in 1884 as the New York Cancer Hospital by a group that included John J. Astor and his wife, Charlotte, the original building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan began its move to its present location on York Avenue in 1936 when John D. Rockefeller, Jr. donated the land upon which, in 1939, Memorial Hospital was constructed. Between 1970 and 1973, a new Memorial Hospital was constructed and this building stands on the site today.
In the 1940s, two former General Motors executives, Alfred P. Sloan and Charles F. Kettering, joined forces to establish the Sloan-Kettering Institute (SKI). SKI has since become one of the nation's premier biomedical research institutions. Built adjacent to Memorial Hospital, SKI was formally dedicated in 1948. In 1960, SKI and Memorial Hospital were unified into a single entity, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Today, the Center has more than 11,000 employees including 768 Memorial Hospital attending staff and 140 SKI members. In 2009, more than 23,000 patients were admitted to Memorial Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering accommodated 500,317 outpatient visits at its Manhattan and regional sites combined.
Benefits
- Mortgage Assistance Program
- Tuition Assistance Program
- Dependent Tuition in Aid Plan
- Eligibility for MSKCC Owned Properties