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RVC facility at Mercy will close by 2018
Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano announced more details last week of a plan to move the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from Rockville Centre to its new home in Uniondale.
In his State of the County address in March, Mangano announced that Sloan Kettering would be purchasing property at the site of the renovated Nassau Coliseum, but details of the plan were limited. In his most recent announcement, he revealed that the center would buy approximately five acres of land on the southwestern section of the Coliseum property to build a two-story, 105,000-square-foot facility and a 450-space parking garage. The new center, he added, will employ approximately 250 people.
“The health care industry is Nassau’s number one employer, and Memorial Sloan Kettering’s desire to build its newest health care facility in Nassau will serve as a further building block to attracting health care-related research and development jobs to the county,” Mangano said in a release. “Under terms of the agreement, Memorial Sloan Kettering commits to building synergies with surrounding educational institutions by offering clinical and administrative internships and other educational programs or opportunities, and will be part of the transformation that is taking place at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.”
The cancer center, which currently shares the Mercy Medical Center property, is a 25,000-square-foot outpatient facility that provides chemotherapy and radiation treatments for cancer patients. Sloan Kettering officials plan to relocate in 2018, when its lease with Mercy expires.
“The Rockville Centre [facility] is pretty squeezed for space,” said Courtney Nowack, a spokeswoman for the center. “We’re hoping with a larger building, they’ll have more space for chemo and other equipment. There will also be more space for ancillary services that patients might need.”
