Today, the Center has more than 9,000 employees including 672 Memorial Hospital attending staff and 128 SKI members. In 2007, more than 21,000 patients were admitted to Memorial Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering accommodated 443,000 outpatient visits at its Manhattan and regional sites combined.
In recent years, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has expanded with new construction and renovations designed to meet the growing needs of both our patients and our research programs.
We have developed a network of community-based state-of-the-art outpatient cancer treatment facilities that bring our expert care closer to patients living throughout our geographical area, including Long Island, Westchester County, and New Jersey.
MSKCC's Breast Examination Center of Harlem (BECH) provides breast and cervical cancer screening at no out-of-pocket expense to the women of Harlem. Since its founding in 1979, BECH has had more than 185,700 visits. In addition, in 2003 MSKCC entered into a partnership with Harlem's North General Hospital through The Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention, to offer the medically underserved population of Harlem access to the highest quality cancer treatment and screening services.
The Center's new 23-story research building, which opened in mid-2006, houses many of our laboratories and allow for expansion of a number of our research programs. The second phase of construction has commenced on a seven-story laboratory building next door. When this building is completed in 2009, both structures will be joined to create one facility.
An exciting new dimension was added to MSKCC in 2004 with the establishment of the Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. A major goal of the school -- which offers a PhD program in cancer biology -- is to narrow the gap between basic cancer research and clinical applications by training a cadre of gifted young scientists to attack clinical problems through basic and translational research. The first class was admitted in July 2006.
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