part of an ongoing RBG graphic:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Undergoes Cancer Surgery
The surgery, a pulmonary lobectomy, took place at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/us/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-cancer.html?
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center History
The institution today known as Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center was founded as the New York Cancer Hospital in 1884. It was the first such hospital in the United States to devote itself solely to the study and treatment of cancer, then considered incurable and therefore shunned by many doctors. The founders were Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton Cullum, a granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton, and financier John Jacob Astor and his wife.
In 1927, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., made the first of his annual $60,000 contributions to Memorial for research and the establishment of six clinical fellowships. He also quietly began assembling parcels of land on Manhattan's East Side, between First and York avenues and 67th and 68th Streets, directly across from the Institute for Medical Research, which later became Rockefeller Institute, then Rockefeller University. In 1936, he donated this tract of land, valued at $900,000, and another $3 million for the construction of a 12-story hospital to replace the existing Upper West Side structure.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) was established in 1960 by the consolidation of Memorial Hospital and Sloan-Kettering Institute, and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s son Laurance became its chairman, serving in this capacity until 1982. Additions to the complex by 1972 included the Kettering Laboratory (1964) and a radiation-therapy center. The new 19-story, 565-bed Memorial Hospital was completed on the 68th Street end of the site in 1973.
Memorial Hospital, Sloan-Kettering Institute, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center came under the direction of Dr. Paul A. Marks, who became president and chief executive officer of all three in 1980. Under Marks, wrote Philip M. Boffery for the New York Times Magazine in 1987, "once-powerful surgeons known for 'heavy cutting' are no longer the dominant faction. Marks' administration has boosted the roles of radiotherapists and doctors who treat cancer with chemical and biological agents and has made the hospital more research-oriented. At Sloan-Kettering โฆ there is increased emphasis on molecular biology. โฆ To accomplish this, Marks has executed a major purge of the scientific staff." Marks also embarked on a $325 million fundraising drive, of which $78 million was earmarked for a new, 13-story research laboratory. (Laurance Rockefeller donated $36.2 million for this purpose.) The new Rockefeller Research Laboratory (named for his father) consolidated laboratories from other portions of the site and from the Rye laboratory. It was completed in 1989.
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/memorial-sloan-kettering-cancer-center-history/
(unsure if this has been covered yet)