Care Partners of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK Care Partners) are healthcare organizations that are committed to working with MSK toward a shared goal: ensuring more patients have access to subspecialized, high-quality cancer care and delivering the latest and most effective cancer treatments to their communities.
These healthcare institutions have a durable, institutional-level relationship with MSK and have achieved concordance with MSK benchmarks by adopting the MSK Standards of Care™ following an intensive review of their cancer program infrastructure, processes and outcomes.
Program goals
- MSK Care Partners’ purpose is to offer the best cancer care to more patients and support our mission of ending cancer for life
- In 10 years, the MSK Care Partners will consist of health systems across the country with each system’s oncology service line identified as MSK Care Partners
- MSK will serve as a platform for innovative clinical trials
- Expand MSK’s Standards of Care™ and positive patient outcomes to a wider community of patients
Benefits of Being an MSK Care Partner
Through MSK Care Partners, MSK and the partner will develop a branded, subspecialized, and integrated clinical program that accelerates the partner’s journey to a destination oncology program where the local care provided is concordant with the care standards at MSK.
Clinical integration and governance
- Access to MSK Standards of Care™ and leading physicians across specialties
- Access to expert second opinions
- Access to latest treatment approaches
- Incubator and means for disseminating innovative care delivery paradigms
- Dedicated collaboration through joint operating committees
Education and knowledge transfer
- Grand Rounds discussions
- Participation in MSK educational opportunities (e.g. Tumor Boards) and MSK presence at local educational events
- Opportunity for MSK appointments for select physicians
- Advising and guidance related to new program development
- Peer-to-peer consultations with MSK physicians and care staff
Cancer Research and innovation
- Designation as an official MSK Clinical Trials site
- Decentralized clinical trial access
- Joint outcomes studies and data collection
- Access to partner-focused research symposia
- Clinical research innovation, including digital research infrastructure
Becoming an MSK Care Partner
The process to become an MSK Care Partner begins with comprehensive due diligence, consisting of a clinical assessment, market analysis, financial evaluation, and site visits.
Following the concordance assessment, MSK and the potential partner will begin developing an alignment plan and timeline to close the gaps and meet concordance, providing a clear roadmap and instilling confidence in the partnership.
Upon a mutually satisfactory conclusion and meeting concordance, MSK Care Partners will have the ability to use the MSK Care Partners ribbon in signage and marketing materials as per agreed upon terms.
Recurring quality reviews will ensure ongoing concordance and support introduction of the latest and most effective approaches to cancer care based on scientific evidence.
