Memebers of the  Westchester community will be able to tour Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center”™s new West Harrison outpatient treatment facility Oct. 1, and patients will begin receiving treatment shortly thereafter.
Memorial Sloan Kettering West Harrison”™s cancer care program opens Oct. 6.The facility will provide outpatient cancer care services delivered by Memorial Sloan Kettering doctors, including diagnostic imaging, treatment and social work.
“West Harrison was designed to extend the culture from the Manhattan site out to Westchester and the surrounding communities, so that we can bring what we”™ve been doing in Manhattan to the local area, providing not only excellent clinical care but also a large array of clinical trials for our patients in the vicinity,” said Dr. Chau Dang, the chief of the medical oncology service for Memorial Sloan Kettering West Harrison, in a blog post published on the hospital”™s website in August. “Our goal is to offer a robust array of trials for patients in West Harrison and the surrounding communities.”
The facility was constructed for $128.8 million dollars and is an adaptive reuse of a former Verizon research building at 500 Westchester Ave., near the junction of Interstate 287 and Interstate 684.
