NYU Langone’s growing Perlmutter Cancer Center recently opened its fourth location in Brooklyn (Cobble Hill) and is significantly expanding services this year in the borough to provide greater access to cancer services and sub-specialized surgical and medical oncology care for a variety of cancers.
The NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center has 37 sites in New York City, Long Island, Queens, and Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, the health system operates a full-service hospital—NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, which provides acute care and surgery. PCC utilizes that hospital for its cancer patients in the borough.
“Brooklyn is the largest borough in NYC, and if it were to stand alone, would be the third or fourth biggest city in the United States. It is a major part of our catchment area and home to an extraordinarily diverse community, much of it underserved. Delivering the highest quality services to patients closer to home is part of our mission, and we are pleased to have the opportunity to do this with our Brooklyn sites,” Ben Neel, director of Perlmutter Cancer Center, said in a statement.
The newest location in Cobble Hill (part of the Joseph S. Diane H. Steinberg Ambulatory Care Center) will augment the existing PCC-Sunset Park outpatient facility, as well as the Midwood and 4th Avenue oncology practices.
Cobble Hill will offer a 14 bay infusion center that is contiguous to the cancer center’s office practice where hematology, medical oncology, and surgical oncology providers will practice. Located within a new 165,000 sq. ft. NYU Langone ambulatory care facility, the center will house several multi-specialty NYU practices, ambulatory surgery, pharmacy, laboratory, and radiology services.
The PCC-Sunset Park expansion will include new exam rooms, as well as the addition of a PET CT SIM in 2024, which will be NYU’s first PET scanner in Brooklyn. In addition, the number of physicians practicing at PCC-Sunset Park will be doubled to ensure quick and easy access to specialists for patients with many types of cancer.
NYU Langone’s Dept. of Radiology is also opening a new breast imaging center in Bay Ridge which will provide additional screening and diagnostic services currently available only at NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn.
Access to clinical trials is another major PCC goal. The cancer center recently expanded its Clinical Trials Office operations to Brooklyn with the first trial activated in July 2022; additional trials have been identified and are in the process of being activated.
In addition to this clinical expansion, PCC is hiring disease-specific clinical navigators to ensure that patients can easily access services across the PCC network in the Brooklyn area and receive care close to home as frequently as possible.
