Memorial Sloan Kettering To Expand To Bergen County

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center will open a new outpatient treatment center in Bergen County next year, the company announced Tuesday.

The state-of-the-art, 109,000-square-foot facility outpatient facility will be located in Montvale. A symbolic ribbon cutting ceremony will be held Tuesday.

More than 700 Bergen County residents sought treatment at the center's Manhattan facilities in 2015. Sloan Kettering estimates that more than 8,000 clinical visits, 4,700 chemotherapy treatments, and 4,200 radiation treatments will be conducted at the facility in its first six months of operation. Those numbers are projected to double in 2018, the company said in a statement.

"Memorial Sloan Kettering's presence in Montvale will case the burden of travel for so many," said Mayor Michael Ghassali.

The facility is slated to bring 120 jobs to the area. Doctor and nursing positions will be filled by area residents, the company said.

"Our vision is nothing less than to revolutionize the treatment of cancer — and part of that vision embraces the idea of bringing all the newest and most successful therapies to as many patients as possible," said Dr. Richard Barakat, deputy physician in chief.