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May 2, 2025
Hartford Healthcare is excited to announce the official grand opening of its first world-class cancer center in Fairfield. Transforming cancer treatments have now entered the next phase with the establishment of the Hartford Healthcare Fairfield Cancer Centre, a care partner at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre (MSK).
The 25,000-square-foot facility at 4185 Black Rock Turnpike redefines patient care through sophisticated, cutting-edge technology, personalized, coordinated care plans and groundbreaking research initiatives.
Fairfield Cancer Center will provide Connecticut's first Varian psychiatric radiation therapy system. This advanced radiotherapy system uses adaptive intelligence to personalize treatments in real time.
Accuracy: Customize treatments to each patient's unique anatomy, maximize effectiveness and minimize side effects. Efficiency: Provide faster treatment time improvement time: Increases your ability to target tumors, leading to better results.
Hartford Healthcare is committed to providing world-class cancer care to our Connecticut communities. The opening of the Fairfield Cancer Center represents an important milestone in this mission. The new center brings together a team of highly specialized experts who provide patients with a comprehensive cancer treatment and a focus on patient comfort and well-being. The center has a calm healing environment designed to reduce stress and promote recovery. Additionally, support services such as counseling, nutritional guidance and integrative therapy are available to meet the overall needs of patients and their families.
“We're excited to announce that Jeffrey A. Flax, president and CEO of Hartford Healthcare, said: “It brings hope to patients with direct access to the best cancer care in the world. This new cancer centre represents the pursuit of exceptional excellence in providing world-class cancer care to all patients.
What does this mean for the patient?
This new chapter in cancer care means a brighter future for patients and offers the best cancer treatments in the world here in Connecticut.
Treatments offered at Hartford Healthcare Cancer Center:
Medical Oncology
injection
Pain management
Palliative care
Pharmacy Services
Laboratory services
Clinical trials
Surgical Oncology
Breast surgery surgery Oncology Plastic surgery (including DIEP flap breast reconstruction) Skin tumor Neurosurgery Chest chest colorectal surgery Urology
Integrated Medicine
Support Services
Social Work Nutritional Financial Counseling Nurse Navigation Survival Program
Radiation Services
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scan Computed Tomography (CT) Scan
MSK Care Partner
“We are proud to be part of Hartford Healthcare to celebrate the opening of the new Fairfield Cancer Center, a state-of-the-art facility that expands access to advanced, personalized cancer care in Connecticut.” “Through our MSK Care Partners, patients at Fairfield Cancer Center and St. Vincent Medical Center in Bridgeport will receive subspecialty care guided by MSK's world-renowned standards. Our work with Hartford Healthcare represents a common commitment to improving cancer outcomes by bringing world-class expertise directly to the community in which our patients live.”
Hartford Healthcare's Fairfield Cancer Center is a care partner at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK Care Partner). This means that Hartford Healthcare doctors at this location have the opportunity to access MSK's expertise and interact with MSK doctors in several ways. Physicians have the opportunity to consult with highly specialized MSK specialists about the optimal treatment plan for their patients. Some doctors also observe that MSK doctors are implementing new techniques and better equip them to provide the best standard of care in their own practices.
It is based on a groundbreaking decade-long collaboration in which Hartford Healthcare Cancer Institute became the first member of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Alliance, the Hartford Healthcare Cancer Institute at St. Vincent Medical Center in Bridgeport, and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Alliance, the first MSK care partner at Hartford Healthcare's Fairfield Cancer Center.
The healthcare organizations that become MSK Care Partners will work with MSK to ensure patients in a community environment receive specialized, high-quality cancer care. These partnerships will help MSK Standards of Care™ to promote integration into local oncology practices through knowledge sharing, increased access to clinical trials, enhanced educational opportunities, and collaboration with leading cancer experts. By committing to continuous improvement based on the MSK Standards of Care™, these organizations undergo regular quality reviews and adopt the latest and most effective cancer care approach based on scientific evidence.
