Compassion Takes on Physical Form at a Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York
Now, perhaps more than ever, we are turning to hospitals to heal. In the case of COVID-19, that is being done by the medicine practiced by the brave healthcare professionals inside their walls. But, beyond the pandemic, could the rooms and the buildings we create to contain the therapeutic process do more by fundamentally redefining what a hospital experience is? Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the oldest and largest private treatment and research center in the world of its kind, founded in New York in 1884, thought it could.