Memorial Sloan Kettering's New UES Cancer Center Opens In January

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Memorial Sloan Kettering's massive new Upper East Side cancer center will open in January 2020, hospital officials announced this week.

The $1.5 billion David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care — located on East 74th Street Avenue and the FDR Drive — will be the renowned hospital's largest free-standing facility at 750,000 square feet, hospital officials said. The center will provide daily outpatient care for 1,300 patients, hospital officials said.

Facilities in the David H. Koch Center include: 231 exam rooms, 110 infusion rooms, 37 procedure rooms and 16 inpatient beds for short stays spread out among the building's 25 floors. The new cancer center benefits from Memorial Sloan Kettering's pioneering cancer treatments, and offers patients access to a number of different services in one building.

"This facility expands on MSK’s rich history of innovation in patient care and combines the latest, most intuitive technology with the compassionate, efficient care of our staff. This is the future of cancer care," Memorial Sloan Kettering President and CEO Craig B. Thompson said in a statement.

In addition to daily patient treatment, the David H. Koch Center will be at the forefront of developing new treatments for cancer, hospital officials said. Three-hundred early phase clinical trials will be conducted at the center. The center will also be equipped with one of the nation's first MR-linacs, a machine that combines of radiation therapy and magnetic resonance imaging.

The late industrialist David H. Koch donated $150 million to the construction of the center.