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Billionaire developer and owner of U.S. News & World Report and the Daily News Mortimer Zuckerman has donated $100 million to Memorial Sloan-Kettering for cancer research. The NY Times says it's the biggest in the hospital's history, and one of the largest to a medical institutiong overall. Since the donation is unrestricted, MSK will be putting most of it towards their new research building on First Avenue and East 68th Street. The 23 floor building, designed by Skidmore Owings Merrill, will be named after the mogul. Zuckerman said, "New York is a city that inspires philanthropy. There are more people who support more eleemosynary institutions than any other place by far. It's one of the reasons I love this city." Yeah, we had to look that up too, but, hey, big word for big donation.
Thing we wonder if billionaires find amusing: Former Citibank chairman Sanford Weill's generous donations to Cornell's medical school - hence it being called Weill Medical College; Zuckerman's company owns Citigroup Center at 53rd and Lexington. If billionaires can inspire each other to donate more, we're all for it, at any rate. Zuckerman writes an opinion column for the Daily News - here's his latest, about the war on terror - and does the same for US News.
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They might have mentioned that Zuckerman has a beloved daughter with cancer.
Everyone eventually gets cancer.
It's all hit and miss, just because you went to MSK, does not mean your survival is good nor their staff is as good as the other hospitals in the tri state area.
Of course, it's much more convenient to have your hospital in the city as opposed to going to SIUH.
Actually, MSK has among the best records for treating cancer in the nation, let alone NYC. Nowhere is perfect but they do a damn good job. Furthermore, the money donated is also put towards their considerable research effort which benefits treatment worldwide. If i was ever to be diagnosed, id be making a bee line for their clinics...
Nowhere is perfect, true.
Tell that to Mrs Reeves, Mr. Jennings and Mr. Orbach. I'm sure they went to MSK.
It's still, Let's try this and see if it works.
Any hospital can do that.
MSK helped my friend's 2 year old daughter.
I hope Zuckerman's donation inspires other people to donate.