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 integrated, 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
- To offer the best cancer care to more patients and support MSK’s mission of ending cancer for life
- To serve as a platform for innovative clinical trials
- To expand MSK’s Standards of Care™ and positive patient outcomes to a wider community of patients
Benefits of being an MSK Care Partner
Joint governance and program development
- Member-specific Joint Operating Committee (JOC)
- Oncology Physician Advisory Council (OPAC) to oversee changes in practice and implementation of Standards of Care™
- Dedicated MSK relationship manager to support activities of dedicated MSK site director, JOC, and OPAC
Education and knowledge transfer
- Grand Rounds, practice discussions, and case conferences
- Nursing and APP education
- MSK observerships and adjunct appointments for select full-time cancer program physicians
Clinical excellence and innovation
- Access to state-of-the-art Standards of Care™ that outpace changes to nationwide recommendations
- Recommended resources and capabilities to improve infrastructure
- Serve as incubator and means for disseminating innovative care delivery paradigms developed at MSK
Research and clinical trials
- Research, IRB, and clinical trials infrastructure
- MSK trials onsite (following assessment process)
- Access to peer-to-peer consultations, collaborations, and MSK Care Partners-focused research symposia
Program growth
- Program improvement and enhancement, including differentiation through subspecialized delivery models and physician recruitment
- Advising and guidance related to new program development, including but not limited to bone marrow transplant and immuno-oncology
Care Partner co-branding
- Co-branded, subspecialized, and integrated clinical program that accelerates the partner’s journey to a destination oncology program
- Ability to market branded relationship and develop co-branded patient-facing materials
For Providers
Healthcare organizations that become MSK Care Partners collaborate with MSK to ensure patients in community settings receive subspecialized, multidisciplinary, high-quality cancer care. These partnerships facilitate the integration of MSK Standards of Care™ into local oncology practices through knowledge-sharing, expanded access to clinical trials, enhanced educational opportunities, and collaboration with leading cancer experts. Physicians will have the opportunity to consult with MSK’s highly specialized experts on the optimal treatment plan for their patients. Some physicians can observe MSK physicians performing new techniques, better equipping them to provide the highest standard of care in their own practices.
Emphasizing better outcomes for patients, providers at MSK Care Partner institutions deeply integrate MSK Standards of Care™ into their oncology practices through:
- Robust collaboration with world-renowned cancer specialists from MSK: This means direct access to some of the world’s top cancer care experts, who provide guidance, consultations, and joint efforts in both research and clinical practice
- Sharing vital knowledge and latest advancements in cancer care: MSK disseminates groundbreaking research and the latest treatment protocols to its MSK Care Partners
- Broadening access to pivotal clinical trials: Patients will have greater opportunities to participate in cutting-edge clinical trials, accessing new treatments that are at the forefront of cancer research
- Providing extensive educational opportunities for healthcare providers: Physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals will receive ongoing training and updates on the latest in oncology care and treatment innovations directly from MSK experts in settings like grand rounds, tumor boards, and observerships
For Patients
Care Partners of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK Care Partners) are healthcare organizations that bring MSK Standards of Care™ into local oncology practices and hospitals. MSK Care Partners brings MSK’s world-renowned care into communities across the country, allowing patients to receive their care closer to where they live.
MSK Care Partners extends MSK’s world-renowned cancer expertise directly to partner facilities. Patients can access exceptional cancer care in their local communities—near their families, support networks, and daily lives—with the confidence that they’re receiving treatment based on MSK’s globally recognized clinical guidelines, evidence-based practices, and proven protocols.
Physicians at MSK Care Partner institutions work in close collaboration with MSK’s leading oncology specialists to deliver the highest standard of patient care. This partnership also expands patient access to innovative clinical trials, providing opportunities to receive breakthrough treatments that represent the latest advances in cancer research. When patients require specialized care best provided at MSK’s main campus, they benefit from expedited access and seamless care coordination between collaborative teams, before transitioning back to their local cancer center for continued treatment.
Patients interested in being treated at an MSK Care Partner facility should reach out directly to our partners for an appointment.
For Institutions
Care Partners of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK Care Partners) is a multidisciplinary program for carefully vetted, like-minded healthcare organizations committed to developing high-quality cancer programs that deliver the latest and most effective cancer treatments in their communities.
MSK collaborates with healthcare organizations to bring MSK Standards of Care™ to more places – standardizing institutional oncology practices and improving cancer outcomes at MSK Care Partner institutions across the country. Institutions become MSK Care Partners following an intensive review of their cancer program infrastructure, processes, and outcomes. Regular quality reviews are also performed to ensure Care Partners continuously meet MSK’s benchmarks. As part of the MSK Care Partners program, Care Partners may also leverage the branded partnership in their marketing efforts and create co-branded materials for patient communications.
Ongoing, customized collaboration allows each MSK Care Partner to develop an integrated, subspecialized, comprehensive clinical program that accelerates its journey to a destination oncology site.
Benefits of becoming an MSK Care Partner include:
- Institutional efficiency through standardization of care across cancer care sites
- Increased faculty recruitment and retention
- Enhanced market positioning
- Improved clinical outcomes
- Expanded clinical research portfolio
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Becoming an MSK Care Partner
The process to become an MSK Care Partner begins with comprehensive due diligence, including market analysis and financial evaluation, and agreement on mutually acceptable terms and milestones. Next, partners undergo a robust Concordance assessment, encompassing Standards of Care™, resources and capabilities, clinical outcomes, and site visits.
Following the Concordance assessment, MSK and the potential partner will develop an alignment plan and timeline to close the gaps and achieve concordance, providing a clear roadmap and instilling confidence in the partnership.
Upon a mutually satisfactory conclusion and meeting concordance, MSK Care Partners receive access to branded marketing, facility co-branding, MSK guidelines and protocols, and educational and research support.
Annual reviews will be conducted to ensure ongoing concordance and support introduction of the latest and most effective approaches to cancer care based on scientific evidence.
For more information about MSK Care Partners or to learn how to become a partner, please contact [email protected].