One year after Hartford Healthcare and New York City’s Memorial Sloan Kettering announced a new partnership to study cancer treatments and outcomes in Connecticut, the pair said the effort is moving forward.
As of Tuesday, Hartford Healthcare and its five acute hospitals — known as the Hartford Healthcare Cancer Institute — are officially certified as a charter member of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Alliance.
Cancer experts and specialists from the two institutions have spent the past year reviewing process and clinical standards across a number of specialties at Hartford Healthcare to ensure they meet MSK’s standards, the providers said.
MSK is billing the alliance as a new approach to speeding advances in cancer care into hospitals across the country.
Hartford Healthcare said its membership in the alliance will benefit Connecticut residents by allowing collaboration with MSK on treatments, research and clinical trials.
While Hartford Healthcare is the charter member, MSK said it will recruit other hospital systems.
