PRESENTATION
Introduction and justification for the new MSK Pavilion
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3 min
Selwyn Vickers, CEO and President of Memorial Sloan Kettering, introduces the institution and its mission to end cancer. He emphasizes MSK's commitment to serving all New Yorkers and the need for a new facility due to increasing cancer diagnoses and current capacity constraints.
- MSK is a 140-year-old cancer center primarily serving New York City residents
- The institution is committed to providing care for all boroughs, zip codes, races, and income levels
- The new Pavilion is necessary to address the projected increase in cancer diagnoses and current space limitations
Selwyn Vickers
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Good good afternoon, Chairman Riley, counsel Nennin and the rest of the council members.
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It's a pleasure for us to be here.
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I'm Selwyn Vickers.
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I'm the CEO and president of Memorial Sloan Kettering.
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I'm a pancreatic cancer surgeon, and both in my career where I grew up and where I've really practiced.
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I'm a health disparities researchers, so access and disparities have been a part of my career and my life journey.
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I have the privilege to serve memorial Sloan Kettering, which I think you've heard as a old cancer center.
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It's a 140 years old, and it's had the privilege to focus on a singular mission of ending cancer for life.
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Many would argue Memorial is an American treasure, but fortunately, it's New York centric, greater than 85 percent nearly 85% of our patients our New York City resident, area resident.
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So although we have a broad reach, the vast majority of the people we take care are in this area.
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In addition, we focus, and I certainly have promoted that we are a cancer center for all of New York.
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All burels, all zip codes, all races, and all incomes.
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And we've worked very hard to make that a reality.
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That's also driven not only by words for nearly 8 to 10 years before I got here, memorial, lobby, and Albany for managed Medicare organizations to negotiate with us.
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They refused to do so until the bill was passed and enacted in 23.
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And so we've grown significantly in the access of people who can come to memorial.
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So millions now have access to arguably what people would say is the world's best cancer care.
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That commitment for us is the reason that we've looked to actually address what is nearly a fifty year old hospital that as you heard, we thought about building several years ago, but now we know for multiple reasons it must be built because of the impending and large number of cancer diagnosis.
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In fact, nearly 2,000,000 cancer diagnosis this year by 2030, probably nearly 50,000 diagnoses in New York, and probably a 50% increase by 2050.
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That's paramount because 10,000 people a day are turning 65.
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That's the highest incident of cancer that we know.
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Compounded the fact that people younger than 3040 are having a massive increase of cancer diagnosis.
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And Memorial was the 1st cancer center in the country to develop a clinic for cancer for young people.
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So with that area and that challenge, we actually want to be able to present a message of why this civilian is necessary.
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I would shutter to think that anyone's loved one would not be able to access our hospital that now is over a 100% occupied, not even addressing the numbers that are changing.
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We routinely run over a 100% occupied I'd really hate to ever see someone not be able to access the care we provide because we don't have the space.
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It's in light of that that we bring forward this request for the pavilion.
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I'd like now to turn this over to my colleague, Doctor.
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Jeff Driven, Head of Surgery.